Word: shan
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Beijing: Fang Shan Restaurant Opened in 1925 by chefs who used to work in the Imperial household, this legendary restaurant doesn't do things by halves. Its Man Han Banquet features 134 hot dishes and 48 cold ones, plus a vast array of desserts, for $180 a head. You'll have to allow several days to work through it all, of course...
...Future Cola--435,000 half-liter plastic bottles--to Los Angeles and New York City. The drink, known in China as Extreme Cola, was designed to provide a domestic alternative to market leaders Coca-Cola and Pepsi. "What they can do, the Chinese people can do as well," says Shan Qining, a Wahaha spokesman. (Never mind that French yogurtmaker Danone owns 51% of Wahaha.) But the homegrown alternative has yet to pose a challenge to the American biggies, which account for 67% of the market in China, according to Beverage Digest. In the U.S., Wahaha already has a toehold: last...
...dense mist swirls, then parts, revealing one man, then 10, then an entire platoon of guerrilla soldiers, all armed and battle-hardened. Their tattered fatigues are muddy and cover tattoos they believe will ward off cold and deflect enemy bullets. This apparition is part of the Shan State Army (S.S.A.), one of a handful of rebel outfits still fighting the Burmese government. The S.S.A.'s goal?an independent homeland for the Shan, Burma's second largest ethnic group?is all but impossible to achieve. But this is still rebel country, with steep, jungle-clad mountains and plunging ravines, where...
...camps along the Thailand-Burma border. One-tenth of them are orphans. Many others are dazed and traumatized, or missing limbs from land mines. These are all victims of a slow-motion genocide. To cut off popular support for the rebels, the Burmese army drove hundreds of thousands of Shan, Lahu, Pa-O and Akha villagers from their homes across Shan state in an orgy of looting, burning, torture and massacres. Human-rights monitors have documented the rape by Burmese soldiers of hundreds of women and girls, some as young as five years old. Thousands of families fester in military...
...Shan have an uneasy relationship with their ethnic cousins, the Thais. (Siam, the old name for Thailand, is a corruption of "Shan.") Unlike other ethnic groups fleeing persecution in Burma, the Shan who cross into Thailand are not granted refugee status, and easily fall prey to disease and human traffickers. To appease Burma's generals?who would like nothing more than a rebel-free Shan state?Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ordered his army to expel the S.S.A. from the group's headquarters, which straddles the border. But that hasn't happened yet and, despite public pronouncements to the contrary...