Word: chuan
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...exercise part of their daily routine. It's not so easy to tell them what to do. Some folks like to run marathons or climb mountains. But if you would rather care for your body without risking life or limb or increasingly creaky joints, you might consider Tai Chi Chuan, the ancient martial art that looks like a cross between shadow boxing and slow-motion ballet...
TASTEFUL LANGUAGE I'm wracking my brain for culinary superlatives as the moon-faced restaurateur eggs me on, plying me with cold beer. Mouthwatering? Lip-smacking? Succulent? Scrumptious? "Yes, yes," says Chai Uan-kum, proprietor of Chai Chuan Chin, scribbling furiously. "Very good." His is the newest establishment on Manting Lu Road, Jinghong's premier eat street, and I've been enlisted to help draft a sign in English that will lure peckish Westerners...
...they reached the Thai border town of Mae Sai. "Growing up in Thailand, I was fascinated by my parents' stories of home," says Chai, 37. "So when I was 17, I came back." He found work as a goldsmith, obtained a Chinese ID card, and last March opened Chai Chuan Chin?fulfilling a lifelong dream...
...When Missing Gun was released in China last month, Beijing cineasts thought they saw a bit of Jiang behind the camera as well as on the screen. The film's director is Lu Chuan, a 28-year-old film school grad with only commercials on his r?sum?. Certain scenes convinced people that Jiang ghost-directed the movie. Not so, insists Lu. "Jiang Wen played a very important role making the movie," he says, leaning forward emphatically in his Hawaiian shirt, "but he spent only 40 days on set. We've worked on this project for two years...
...Outside of Japan, Thailand has had perhaps the most disappointing succession of Prime Ministers of any major Asian nation. Since 1991 there have been eight other Prime Ministers, all of whom, at their best, conveyed an image of dull impropriety. (Quick, who was Prime Minister before Thaksin's predecessor Chuan Leekpai? Didn't think you remembered.) Thaksin, on the other hand, has managed to associate himself with wealth, with economic growth, with mobile phones and the Internet. And by now, even remote Thai villages that don't yet have Internet access know it is something they should want...