Word: hai
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...With the violence showing no signs of dissipating, Buddhist civilian militias patrol potentially dangerous street junctions or congregate in temple grounds where they peer through monsoon downpours with shotguns at the ready. One morning at the temple of Chang Hai Tok village in Pattani province, a batch of Iron Ladies, outfitted all in black, runs through military exercises. Surveying the training from behind a trio of Buddha statues, 60-year-old abbot Pracharoonkittisophano shrugs his shoulders when asked whether women twirling rifles, along with a shooting range behind his sleeping quarters, elicits any spiritual discomfort. "Guns are normal things...
...last winter, and three follow-up titles are on their way this fall. FAIL Blog ink stampers and Lolcats magnetic poetry sell like hotcakes. Contributors to the LOLCat Bible Translation Project, which launched in 2007, are almost through translating the entire Good Book into kitty pidgin. (It opens, "Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs.") I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL! is scheduled to debut Aug. 14 at the New York International Fringe Festival. The show follows several cats and a "Lolrus" in search of a particular food. "It's a classic quest...
...believe how crazy I was. I was hooked on him. I saw his movie Dil to Pagal Hai every week. I put up his posters on my ceiling, on the walls, in my cupboard." - Aida Wilson, a Singaporean woman who named her first child Shah Rukh in Khan's honor (The Straits Times...
...Hanoi government says it is listening to concerns but it appears to be unmoved. Dung recently declared bauxite mining a "major policy of the party and the state." Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai reaffirmed the government's support, and several local provincial officials were on hand at a recent mining conference to defend the project, arguing that despite the presence of the Chinese workers, development will benefit the impoverished ethnic minorities who live in the region...
...writers, Le Phuong Thi, one of jailed blogger's Nguyen Hoaong Hai sources who fled to California in July after fearing for her own safety, believes they will carry on despite the new law. "It's an excellent tool to let the world know and spread the news of what's going on inside Vietnam because there are no independent newspapers or news organizations in Vietnam," she said. And while she can't return home and her former colleague remains in prison, stories of persecution like theirs stories are only fanning the flames of discontent - not stamping them out. "Right...