Word: mekong
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...continent which, at that time, he had not even seen. Gargan would go on to spend 15 years traversing Asia as a New York Times correspondent, covering stories from India to China. He says he wrote his meandering travelogue The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong (Knopf; 322 pages) for two reasons: to fill in some of the blanks from a career of writing in column inches, not manuscript pages, and to "lend some substance and meaning" to those two years in a Kentucky prison...
...epic voyage, drifting down all 4,880 km of Southeast Asia's longest river. Gargan begins at the Mekong's source in the thin air of the Tibetan plateau and goes with the flow until it reaches the South China Sea. En route through China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam?all countries nursing scars from a tumultuous and bloody century?he introduces us to a mElange of characters: yak herders, opium farmers, European backpackers, jaded aid workers, Vietnam vets?and endangered Irrawaddy dolphins. Some of those he meets seem unaffected by the horrors of the region's recent past...
...fish are being pawned off as catfish to unsuspecting American consumers," argued Arkansas Senator Tim Hutchinson, who co-sponsored the legislation against basa, and whose state happens to be a major site of catfish farming. "With names such as Delta Fresh, no one would suspect it is from the Mekong Delta...
...fish are being pawned off as catfish to unsuspecting American consumers," argued Arkansas Senator Tim Hutchinson, who co-sponsored the legislation against basa, and whose state happens to be a major site of catfish farming. "With names such as Delta Fresh, no one would suspect it is from the Mekong Delta...
...three times daily, as my mother attempted to wash away her memories of the Vietnam War: her own brother’s prolonged beating by the Viet Cong, the first husband’s murder in the South China Sea, the mangled corpses bumping against each other in the Mekong River. But no matter how hard she scrubbed, my mother could never erase her most startling memories: the shortage of medicine that stripped her 6 year-old son of his mental faculties, the fever that cut off a large part of his nervous system, the brain swelling that left...