Word: sonam
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...people in Asia and the world at large can take greater responsibilities in the international community." But it can be pointed out with some justification that China is endangering the economic prosperity of a large part of the earth's people, making itself a pariah state and a joke. Sonam Rinchen Hong Kong The views of China and South Korea are poorly understood outside Asia. For better or for worse, the West tends to give Japan the benefit of the doubt. Is it because the Japanese have been making cars and TVs better and longer than the Chinese...
...many speak excellent English, the medium of instruction in all Bhutanese schools. Villagers delight in translating the age-old stories of wicked demons and angry gods that once stalked the population. As for tourist touts, they are rarer than dragons. So laid-back are Bhutanese, said our tour organizer Sonam, that unlike their visitors, they have little use for vacations. "Life in Bhutan is so stress-free," he said. "Why would we need holidays...
Growing up in the Tibetan refugee settlement of Mundgod in southern India, Ngawang Choephel was enthralled by the music of the land he had left behind. He had fled in 1968, when his mother Sonam Dekyi carried the two-year-old Choephel on her back through the Himalayas to India, and he found that traditional music was just about the only link he had to home. As a teen, he made a dranyan (a six-stringed lute) from a gourd and fishing line and taught himself to play. In 1992, after graduating from the Tibetan Institute for Performing Arts...