Word: durian
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...satellite dishes around Belaga before marking a wild hornbill along the turbid Rajang. I sip limeades with Calvin at a riverfront café on my last night in town. He points to a weathered chieftain's tomb on the opposite bank, a wooden blur amid ferns and rubber and durian trees. The family hasn't maintained it for years, and restoration is unlikely. It's getting darker as the sun dips below Jayong mountain to the west. Soon the day will be gone, and soon so will the tomb and men like Kojan...
...smelly durian is like a thornless rose. It's really cutting out the soul.' BOB HALLIDAY, Bangkok-based food writer, on a Thai scientist's development of an odorless variety of durian, a popular Asian fruit so pungent it is banned from some airlines and hotels
...Estimated death toll, as of Dec. 3, after Typhoon Durian devastated the central Philippines, according to the Red Cross. Hundreds are still unaccounted for 4 Number of typhoons to hit the Philippines in the past three months. Forecasters predict another before the end of the year...
...once-vital film form. Fruit Chan's Public Toilet wanderlusts from India to New York City with its young, blond, Chinese hero, who is named Public Toilet because that is where his mother gave birth to him. With the success of Made in Hong Kong, Little Cheung and Durian, Durian (which Toronto showed two years ago in Italian subtitles?how's that for arty?), Chan has become Hong Kong's emissary to film festivals; he seemingly cannot take a Polaroid snapshot without getting an international prize for it. His new movie fits into his gritty, emotive but not sentimental style...
...Designed to please Asian palates, this quaint kiwi is catching on also in North America, where 1,750 tons of the fruit were sold last year. Zespri International, the New Zealand firm that developed it, expects a record volume of the fruit in stores this June. Next up: unscented Durian fruit...