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...been performed in more than 120 countries in at least 45 languages, and now The Vagina Monologues has officially arrived in China. After a successful run in Beijing in March, the Chinese production of Eve Ensler's famous play swept into Shanghai this past weekend. Wang Chong, the play's Beijing-born director, translated Ensler's script from English for a three-woman cast, taking care to closely match the meaning of hard-to-translate words like vagina and its less anatomical synonyms...
Read an interview with Tommy Chong...
...Last to be relinquished in most cases is a child's enrollment in an exclusive school, where annual tuition ranges from $15,000 to $20,000. Local schools like Hwa Chong International (tuition: about $10,000) are reporting strong growth, not only because they're cheaper but also because these schools are popular with foreigners who see their children's long-term future in Asia rather than in the West. Enrollment at Hwa Chong, which offers classes in English and Chinese, jumped from 283 students last year to 440 this year, according to school officials. "The education in Chinese gives...
...cowboy theme starts on the journey up Highway 2 from Bangkok, near the town of Pak Chong. At the Chokchai Steakhouse, tel: (66-4) 432 8445, run by one of the country's largest farms, carnivores can dig in to dry-aged T-bone and spicy jaew sauce made with garlic, chili and ginger, or pick up disks of sweetened beef jerky for the ride north. Freshly churned ice cream is available for dessert. And just as the American West has its Californian vineyards, so this vicinity is home to several Thai wineries, which offer up passable plonk...
...speak Dutch, but we think the name means cute," says Kuala Lumpur native Jenny Chong, 32, who, along with friends (and former McCann Erickson advertising-agency colleagues) Jessy Yap and Samantha Wong, both 26, runs Mooie, the funkiest fashion destination in the Malaysian capital. On display is a wide range of Asian fashion labels, along with bandbox-striped changing rooms and blackboard walls on which the trio chalk up monthly messages informed by their design backgrounds. "We like to be creative in everything we do," Chong says...