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Three decades ago, before they knew each other, Panja S. Lymswam and Khemachat Kordsomboon emigrated from Thailand to the United States. Since that time, the two have spent the greater part of their time here sharing the food of their homeland with Americans and Harvard students. After having set up three successful eateries in 14 years, the people behind square restaurants Spice Thai Cuisine and 9Tastes—composed of Thai immigrant friends and family members of the two men—are about to open a new restaurant called Shabu Square, which will come to 97 Winthrop Street...
...Secretary Robert Gates concedes that neither the clandestine U.S. raids or the increased efforts by the Pakistani military have done much to suppress the insurgency. "If you ask me today - after the successes that we've had against al-Qaeda in Iraq - where the greatest threat to the [U.S.] homeland lies," he said Tuesday, "I would tell you it's in western Pakistan...
...campaign rap "Viva HC!", chants "Yes-We-Can" (in English), a reference to the campaign slogan of Barack Obama. That's an odd choice given that Strache is urging that some African immigrants be deported. "Austria! First!" he sings, backed by an unsettling crowd chant. "Our Homeland! Our people! Our culture! Our language! Is what I stand for, HC Strache...
...what is now Laos' ruling communist organization, the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. He first became involved with the group in 1945, when Laos was still under French rule, and later represented a Laotian communist organization at the 1954 conference in Geneva that ultimately resulted in independence for his homeland. Toward the end of his long tenure in government, he succeeded President Kaysone Phomvihan when he died in 1992. Nouhak, who was President through 1998, died...
...attack had gone according to plan, it would have killed or wounded countless U.S. diplomats in the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden within a week of the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Although Wednesday's attack on the U.S. embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a left at least 16 people dead, the bravery and quick reaction of Yemeni security forces foiled what appeared to be a daring attempt to storm the embassy compound and kill everyone inside. One American of Yemeni origins was among the victims of the thwarted attack...