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...center of the action. The bands at Club Quattro, which you called "rock's leading lights," like Oasis and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, are anglophone global brand names. For real musicianship, grit and oomph, the mecca for live bands is the red-light underbelly of Manila, the sin city. That's where you'll hear people who can really play. Live. Kail M. Zingapan Manila...
...Eastern Luzon is unlikely to recover so swiftly from the typhoon havoc of last week, because the disaster was only part natural-and largely the work of man. Two storms slammed in from the Philippine Sea, hitting the coastal areas of Quezon province north of Manila. Normally, the interior Sierra Madre mountains would block and tame the storms, and the rain would be absorbed by the roots of the trees that line the mountainsides. But the mountains in Quezon have been steadily denuded of trees in the past four decades. (Much of the logging is illegal.) The mountains behind...
...after the destruction caused by the dozen or more monsoons that take swipes at the archipelago each summer and autumn. But the island of Luzon is unlikely to recover swiftly from the havoc of last week, when two storms slammed into the coastal areas of Quezon province north of Manila, because the disaster was only partly natural - and largely the work of man. Normally, the roots of trees that cover the interior Sierra Madre mountains would absorb the rain. But four decades of logging - much of it illegal - has steadily denuded the island's mountains...
...There's no money on the farm," a young man from Danang province, Vietnam, told me last month, explaining why he was riding me around Saigon on the back of his motorbike to support the family he never saw. The girls in the local bars, like their counterparts in Manila or Shanghai, might have said the same thing: they would give up security, community and family if it led to a chance for cash...
...eating in restaurants with her and her boss. At one such meal last summer, FBI agents watched as he handed two envelopes that seemed to bear U.S. government printing to the two Taiwan officials. Keyser later left the restaurant and was seen heading to his vehicle carrying a folded manila envelope. He met again with both agents earlier this month and passed them a document. As the three left the restaurant, the FBI stopped and searched them...