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...just in the cities but in the countryside as well, where farmers were particularly hard hit by the '97 crisis. Indeed, Thaksin's greatest success so far may be reviving the debt-laden rural economies. In the farming town of Bahn Rong Kong Khao, near the city of Chiang Mai in the country's north, the government's $2.3 billion Village Fund program, a microlending scheme, is a mini miracle, say residents. Narong Fongkraew, 50, who grows rice and chilies on his small farm, credits the Village Fund with saving not just his farm but the whole community. "After...
...Mai Mai Lin ’04, 18th in line for the pretest, said she had not watched “Jeopardy!” in five years, but the opportunity to pay for a year of tuition with a few slams of the buzzer was too tempting...
...that Mr. Truong is not a spook after all. As it turns out, he's not even a Party member. He's just an anxious guy with unfortunate hair. He also doesn't know how to work a manual clutch-though he never admits to it. Our Vietnamese colleague Mai, tired after six days on the road, asks him to ride her Minsk while she takes the jeep. The going is particularly mountainous, and heading uphill Mr. Truong keeps getting stuck between gears. We pass him several times: he's frantically trying to keep from stalling, strands of hair escaping...
...grade school, he was already 6 ft. 4 in. tall, a behemoth in a region known for its diminutive people. Yi's parents, however, were reluctant to let the Soviet-style sports school lay claim to their only son. "We had endured hardships ourselves," says Yi's mother, Mai Meiling, who like her husband works as a postal clerk. "We couldn't get good jobs when we retired because we didn't have a good education. We wanted more for our son." Dai Yixin, the school's veteran coach, finally convinced the parents their son wouldn't get lost because...
...staff at Miss Saigon would agree. With its bistro-style setting and fresh baguettes for banh mi (spicy grilled-pork sandwiches), the restaurant emphasizes the French influence on Vietnamese food and has won fans in the tony neighborhood near Rice University and Houston's medical center. Downtown, Mai's has a strong following for its noodle soups, chicken-coconut curry and fresh lemon soda. And it's open until 2:30 a.m. every day, a gift to restless road warriors in this early-to-bed city...