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...Wiranatha knows that fate dealt him a survivor card this time around?one of his bars, the sophisticated Ku DE Ta in Seminyak, is managing to stay afloat due to a loyal expat clientele?but he worries about others. "We have a ceremony to send the victims to heaven, but what about those left behind? Those who lost a father, a business, how do they eat, how do they send their children to school?" If the tourists don't come back, or another bomb hits the region, Wiranatha knows that as a last resort, he can always return...
...clampdown now sees most hotels, and some shopping malls, guarded by groups of machine-gun-toting soldiers and officials who frisk pedestrians and subject entering vehicles to detailed examinations that include a sweep of the chassis with flashlight and mirror-equipped poles. Some of the city's most popular expat watering holes?such as the usually packed BATS at the Shangri-La hotel?have simply shut down until further notice...
...Bali, was one of those places where the world comes out to play. By 11 p.m. on Oct. 12, it was packed with the usual crowd--tanned Australian kids in shorts and halter tops dancing to house music, surfers in from the beach downing beers and Jell-O shots, expat sports teams from Hong Kong and Singapore, backpackers from around the world--the children of globalization, mobile phones in hand, making out before heading back to their cheap hotels. David Fielder, 46, a British rugby referee in town from Hong Kong for a game, was standing with a group...
SWEET HOME ALABAMA. Like most recent vehicles for Reese Witherspoon’s wide-eyed spunk, Sweet Home Alabama is all about being out of place, usually with native charm shining against cold elitism (see Legally Blonde, Cruel Intentions, etc.). This time, Witherspoon plays Melanie, a trailer trash expat who reinvents herself as a New York fashionista. Her blue-blooded boyfriend (Patrick Dempsey) rents out Tiffany’s to propose to her, but there’s just one little bit of unfinished business: she’s still married to her high school sweetheart. When she goes home...
...might be a bit premature to compare expat Singaporean author Lau Siew Mei to Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez, but her first novel, Playing Madame Mao, is certainly evocative of the Nobel laureate's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Lau's work is also one of the best novels ever written about Singapore...