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...gather eggs or simply kick up infected dust in their villages. "If I had known about the bird flu," says Roongroj Boontang, the uncle who allowed Kaptan Boonmanuj to play with his fighting roosters, "my nephew would still be alive." --Reported by Andrew Perrin/Ben Ya Pad, Karl Taro Greenfeld and Bryan Walsh/Hong Kong and David Bjerklie/New York
Karl Taro Greenfeld heard first about the vinegar. Just across the border from Hong Kong, markets were reporting a run on all kinds of vinegar as local Chinese sought the liquid in the belief that, when it was boiled, the fumes purified the air and warded off respiratory ailments. Karl, who edits the Asian edition of TIME and is based in Hong Kong, thought this was just another exotic story, the week's equivalent of Japanese schoolgirls selling their underwear or a neighborhood committee in East Java beheading a suspected witch. These dispatches, however, were the first media reports about...
...Under the Tuscan Sun and many other tales of yuppies "slumming it" in old, country homes. While the storytelling is evocative, the collection's focus on writers complaining about the impossibility of finding a decent plumber in their quaint hamlet starts to grate. TIME Asia's editor Karl Taro Greenfeld offers an antidote with his claustrophobic account of a college semester spent in a Parisian loft, gambling his monthly allowance on games of Nerf basketball with a trio of dissolute Americans and an Argentine kleptomaniac. Scoured of romanticism, his story dwells on the conflict that comes with being a resident...
When he was 23, TIME Asia editor Karl Taro Greenfeld set off to become an English teacher in Japan. But that was only the beginning. Standard Deviations: Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia is a vivid, intimate portrait of a continent--and a young man--in flux. As the Asian economies come of age, Greenfeld takes the reader on a tour of the giddy highs and lurid lows of late 20th century Asian life. "There was a wicked sorcery in Asia," he writes, and in Standard Deviations he deconstructs that magic...
...Greenfeld is the editor of TIME Asia