Word: monsoon
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...from the best international artists, all exploring the concept of time. In Untitled (Bangkok), Serb Bojan Sarcevic walks the alleys of the Thai capital, showing that the journey, not the arrival, matters. In Indonesia-born Fiona Tan's Rain, two blue plastic buckets never quite get filled by a monsoon. It's a symbol of futility, like emptying the sea with a cup, yet a soothing, contemplative one. Equally calm but with a sinister undertone is Albanian Anri Sala's Blindfold. Blank billboards on Vlorë and Tirana roofs reflect the rising sun into the viewer's eyes, people hurry...
...Japan won't be the only country suffering. In late October, India's central bank lowered its GDP growth forecast for the current fiscal year to a range of 6-6.5%, citing a mediocre monsoon season and high oil prices. Last year, the economy grew 8.2%. Southeast Asia, too, will see a decline, from 5.8% growth this year to 4.4% in 2005, according to Merrill Lynch. In Indonesia, the region's most populous country, hopes are running high that new President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will push through tough reforms and woo back the investment needed to spur the sagging economy...
...World Bank and Asian Development Bank have estimated that the flooding in Bangladesh during the summer monsoon season caused $2.2 billion in damage...
August arrives, finally marking the end of the monsoon season, and one day I realize with surprise that I am truly happy here. In June, these months seemed to stretch before me like an eternity but now I have made friends, learned to dance to Hindi music. When I meet people in the street, they address me in Dzongka, the Bhutanese language...
...best of her films have been authentic depictions of the Indian diaspora, small in scope and locale but with themes universal enough to have generated a warm and lucrative Western following. Monsoon Wedding, which cost just over a million dollars, earned almost $14 million in limited release. Audiences have been enthralled by Nair's signature carnivalesque style and her craftiness at tying down epic scenes, like Wedding's elaborate, traditional rain-soaked Indian nuptial ceremony. So at first glance, her latest undertaking, a $23 million adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair, may come as something...