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...Mai and Rika squat on a Shibuya street corner crawling with drunks and hustlers. Dressed almost identically in tight tees and pants, the girls?who say they're 18 but look 14?touch up their lipstick as they draw leers from the men stumbling by. Mai pulls out her bleating cell phone and checks the number on the screen. "My mom," she tells Rika, tucking the phone back in a Starbucks tote bag without answering. Rika nods. Mai tosses her long hair and declares: "Tonight's an all-nighter...
...band members are a loose group of a dozen musicians mostly from early-'90s Hong Kong rock bands N.T., Mai Tai, Screw and Anodize. They started jamming 10 years ago, and in 1999 put together a rap album with live guitars and drums. To do so, they turned bass player Jimmy's apartment -- which had earlier doubled as the Anodize band HQ -- into a recording studio that has since produced four LMF albums, plus solo albums by band members DJ Tommy, who spins and scratches hip-hop beats onstage, and guitarist and producer Davy Chan. The band's songs...
...During a dinner at the Suan Bua resort on the outskirts of Chiang Mai, Thaksin sits surrounded by his Cabinet ministers who are taking a break from a two-day retreat where he is formally articulating his policies. Despite his tub-thumping election campaign he has not actually said what he stands for?aside from his vague blandishments about technology and the future. In his first few months in office he sent conflicting foreign-policy signals, telegraphing an isolationist message at an April conference in Bangkok where he said Thailand would reduce dependence on exports and look inward to solve...
...vestment, and sits on a cushion on the soft teak floor under a pavilion next to a bubbling stream while young women in ornate sarongs parade past with plates of spicy chicken, sticky rice and boned freshwater fish. A famous oenophile, he sips an expensive Bordeaux, brought to Chiang Mai from his own cellars. His entourage, a collection of cronies and political allies for whom Thaksin has been criticized, is gathered around him at other low tables. For a putative reformist, he has surrounded himself with numerous politicians associated with corruption-tainted governments from the past. Suwit Khunkitti, Shucheep Harnsawad...
...Thaksin grew up not far from that hotel, in Sankampaeng, near Chiang Mai, the second of 10 siblings. His father, a Chinese merchant who tried his hand at jobs ranging from bus driving to running a movie theater, was a modest success who would eventually rise to serve in parliament. Thaksin has steadily propagated the myth that he grew up impoverished. His aunt, Chansom Shinawatra, 78, however, shrugs when asked about the Shinawatra family circumstances: "We did well." Well enough, according to some of Thaksin's childhood friends, for the strapping, big-eared boy to own the only bicycle...