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...wealth of convincing detail - hostess lounge décor, menus and flirtation techniques, foreign visa technicalities, drunken-salaryman patter, Yakuza personnel policy - suggests that the author has been there and, horrors, maybe even done that. In fact, Barker, born 26 years ago to an English father and a Chinese-Malay mother, did spend two years working in Osaka, though as an English teacher, not a bar girl. Then she entered the graduate writing program at Manchester University, where she evidently studied a bit too hard. Time doesn't just pass in Sayonara Bar, it "drips on like a festering stalactite...
...food courts? Pandan tuna wraps, Peking duck pizzas and (the horror! The horror!) green-tea frappuccinos are freely available. So are Singapore's traditional syncretic cuisines. Long before fusion godfather Jean-Georges Vongerichten was mixing tamarind with truffles, local hawkers were fusing ingredients with aplomb. Nyonya cuisine (Chinese-Malay), Mamak food (Indian-Malay), and kaya toast (English toast with coconut-egg custard) are all fusion foods, doled out daily to office workers for $2 a pop. That's why class-conscious diners are being drawn to less chewed-over culinary styles...
...course, some people were disappointed, and not only Premier League fans. "The government should leave it to the individual to decide whether to bet or not," says Lim Guan Eng, secretary-general of the opposition Democratic Action Party. Malaysia's media sent out a mixed message on the issue: Malay-language newspapers, principally read by Muslims, splashed the cancellation across their front pages, while coverage was subdued-or absent-in the urban English- and Chinese-language press, some of whose readers aren't averse to the occasional bet on a soccer match...
...this was in fact the big showdown and had congregated in the middle of the city. But other than random bursts of small-arms fire, which is met with heavy fusillades, there is little action at the soda factory. Chontosh meets with the 3/5 commander, Lieut. Colonel Patrick J. Malay. They agree that things are looking good, but Malay says, "Let's not press our luck" by staying too long and "letting someone get lucky with a mortar." Twenty minutes later, they head...
...just the sermons of radical clerics that brainwash young Thai Muslims. On many of the youths killed on April 28, a 65-page booklet was found. TIME has seen a copy. Handwritten in Malay, the language of Thai Muslims, but using Arabic, not Roman, script, most of the pamphlet consists of repeated exhortations to the "Warriors of Martyrdom." A sample: "Sacrifice your flesh to the last drop of blood ... blood that will trickle down the warriors' bodies and flood the soil in red, reflecting a red radiance across the sky at dawn and dusk, the East and West calling...