Word: gai
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...just before noon on a Tuesday, and despite the rain, a few dozen schoolgirls in white uniforms and navy cardigans are milling about the 7-Eleven on Tong Chong Gai, a bustling Hong Kong side street of restaurants and cafés. A few of the teenagers grab chocolate milk and sushi rolls from the open chiller. The others queue up to order a hot lunch at the brand-new food counter that is manned by half a dozen employees in bright orange uniforms...
...could take off. "I don't think 7-Eleven is competing with street vendors per se because the crowd is different," says Lum. "The younger generation may go to 7-Eleven a lot more easily than those people who are older." Back at the café on Tong Chong Gai, he appears to be correct. Loretta, 16, orders her lunch of laksa, a curry noodle soup. She says she likes the variety here. Plus, she says, "it's new." Vivian, 17, picks a temaki roll off the shelf and says she comes here because it's cheap. "They...
...better sense of the city, hit the streets. Hanoi's pulse beats hardest in the maze-like Old Quarter, a collection of 50 streets and alleys, each named for its primary goods, such as silk on Hang Gai and silver on Hang Bac. Art houses sell communist-era propaganda reproduced on posters, canvas and mugs, and galleries offer stroke-perfect replicas of famous paintings for as little...
SYDNEY Loyal Gucci fans, including Australian horse trainer Gai Waterhouse, love the timeless look of these frames...
...Competition is intense for places in the Ku-ring-gai Unit for Gifted and Talented Students, based at St. Ives North School in Sydney. Parents of children who've sat the test and been rejected often won't go quietly. "I've come out of many conversations with my head reeling," says unit coordinator Tina Howard. Not that parents whose children are accepted necessarily relax. Many Year 6 parents become agitated as the entry test for selective high schools approaches each March, "because the fear of not getting into one of these schools after being in a program like this...