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...have a troubled child, do you say, "Go out of the house, I don't want to talk to you?"' ONG KENG YONG, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, rejecting a U.S. proposal to suspend Burma's membership in the regional group over its human-rights violations...
...taboo subjects," Catherine Lim wrote in a lengthy essay published in the Straits Times in May. There is no effective political opposition to the PAP, and few voices prepared to speak out in favor of wider democratic debate. "I think [Lee] taught us fear," says theater director Ong Keng Sen. Lim argues that the stress on order and discipline, arguably essential to an earlier stage of Singapore's development, may harm it now. "A model of governance that has no place for political openness carries with it the seeds of its own decline or even demise," she wrote...
...Villagers in Keng Gnao, a small community on Nakai Plateau, are counting on it. They have been told for years that their thatched huts would one day lie beneath an enormous lake and that they would have to be relocated. A long time ago, the idea might have upset them. But in the intervening years, they have watched loggers decimate the plateau's lush forests, where villagers collected and hunted much of their food. Poverty on the plateau is endemic. Children often die in infancy. Crops routinely fail. Hunger is a fact of life. A few kilometers from Keng Gnao...
...slang for smoking speed in Thai is keng rot, literally racing, the same words used to describe the weekend motorcycle rallying. The bikers' lives revolve around these two forms of keng rot. They look forward all week to racing their bikes against other gangs from other neighborhoods. And while they profess to have nothing but disgust for the slum's hard-core addicts, by 4 a.m. that night on a mattress laid on the floor next to his beloved Honda, Big and his friends are smoking yaba, and there suddenly seems very little difference between his crowd and Jacky...
...slang for smoking speed in Thai is keng rot, literally racing, the same word used to describe the motorcycle rallying the boys do every weekend. Their lives revolve around these two forms of keng rot. They look forward all week to racing their bikes against other gangs from other neighborhoods. And while they profess to have nothing but disgust for the slum's hard-core addicts, by 4 a.m. that night, in Big's room in his parent's house, on a mattress laid on the floor next to his beloved Honda, Big and his friends are smoking yaba...