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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...millions of worshipers. Phan Thi Lan Huong is one of them. Surrounded by clouds of incense, the 59-year-old grandmother clutches her hands in prayer in front of an altar ringed with painted Buddhas. She is one of up to 20,000 who flock each day to the Chua Huong Pagodas southwest of Hanoi during the pilgrimage season. "Of course we are free to worship," she says, blinking with surprise. "The government never stops us?just those who have bad practices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sins of the Father | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...This slum doesn't have a name. The 5,000 residents call it Ban Chua Gan, which translates roughly as Do It Yourself Happy Homes. The expanse of jerry-rigged wood-frame huts with corrugated steel roofs sprawls in a murky bog in Bangkok's Sukhumvit district, in the shadow of 40-story office buildings and glass-plated corporate towers. The inhabitants migrated here about a decade ago from villages all around Thailand. Jacky came from Nakon Nayok, a province near Bangkok's Don Muang airport, seeking financial redemption in the Asian economic miracle. And for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need for Speed | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

...Howard Chua-Eoan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Cooking Up Surprises | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...Howard Chua-Eoan, Assistant Managing Editor

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy New Century! | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

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