Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rangoon, one of Southeast Asia's more dilapidated capitals, workmen are busily scrubbing years of grime from the curbstones. Newly painted red-and- white pavement glistens, and gardeners are trimming shrubs in Maha Bandoola Park, next to the Sule Pagoda. All that effort by Burma's seven-week-old military government is part of an official campaign to "Keep Rangoon Pleasant." The cleanup is an attempt to polish the military's tarnished image -- and that has doomed it from the start. "They think we will like them if they clean up the city," says a shop clerk on Merchant Street...
According to the author's somewhat breathless account, when Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita ("the Tiger of Malaya") moved to Manila in 1944, he took charge of several billion dollars' worth of gold that the Japanese had accumulated in their conquest of Southeast Asia. The bullion was cached in underground caves dug by U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war, who were then buried alive with it. Seagrave claims that Marcos was able to disperse the gold with the aid of a murky global network of coconspirators, including Swiss banks, a London-based bullion cartel, right-wing American political groups (among them...
...Pacific. Normally the system functions as a giant heat pump, distributing energy from the equator to the higher latitudes through storms brewed over the warm western Pacific. In conjunction with the oceans, these climatic patterns affect much of the world's weather, ranging from the monsoon season in southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent to rainfall in South America and Africa...
...this must be China), this, without question, is the time of Thailand. Suddenly, faraway once-upon-a-time Siam has become the hottest destination in the world. In the past ten years, the number of tourists has tripled. Not coincidentally, the country boasts the fastest-growing economy in Southeast Asia, itself the fastest-growing area in the world. Last year, to celebrate the 60th birthday of the revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the government enticed, with elegant ads and well-phrased brochures, a record 3.5 million tourists to the kingdom. This year the number promises to surpass 4 million, or three...
...judge a restaurant based on the food served at a reception because only certain dishes are prepared, and these are often prepared ahead. First Street's affair featured appetizers and salads, leaving behind such interesting menu items as griddled calamari steak sandwich and sauteed beef and peppers with Southeast Asian spices on Japanese noodles--an unusual, if dubious-sounding, creation...