Word: southeasterly
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...towns, the weekly Ghan takes two nights to make the 2,979-km haul to Adelaide from Darwin. Choose between seats, budget sleepers or luxury cabins. Read more at www.gsr.com.au. HANOI TO HO CHI MINH CITY: The Thong Nhat line, once known as the "Reunification Express," arguably serves up Southeast Asia's most luxuriant rural vistas. Four modern trains with air-conditioned double-decker carriages, and free meals to boot, depart Hanoi Station daily, arriving in Ho Chi Minh City 32 hours later. Stopping off in Nha Trang, Da Nang and Hué on your way are all options...
...used the term “loosely” to denote people of East Asian descent, completely disregarding entire subpopulations of the term “Asian American.” Sadly, this casual use is far from uncommon but does a serious disservice to populations such as underrepresented Southeast Asian Americans, who were found in a study by New York University to have one of the highest high school dropout rates...
...Surayud's fresh approach has had no impact on the daily diet of bomb blasts, shoot-outs and beheadings. "The government has sent some encouraging signals, but it will need to go much further if it hopes to stem the killings," says Francesca Lawe-Davies, a Southeast Asia analyst with the International Crisis Group. "It will need to address the underlying grievances that attract people into armed movements...
...Yunus successfully demonstrated how microcredit can be a means of alleviating poverty and empowering women. An impossible idea turned out to be a practical weapon in the fight against the extreme poverty of those in Southeast Asia and other Third World areas. Yunus' goal of reducing poverty by half by 2015 will require the commitment and cooperation of development partners and the unequivocal support of local governments. Dhiraj Kumar Nath Dhaka, Nigeria...
...Earlier, his presidential motorcade had sped beneath a hammer and sickle formed from red and yellow lightbulbs, a reminder that the world does not change as fast as he would like. The reluctant traveler dropped into the capital of his least favorite analogy as part of a sweep through Southeast Asia that allowed him to look commanding, even regal, at a time when postelection Washington is buzzing about the onrushing twilight of his presidency. "Happy to find a receptive audience," he slyly told fawning musicians in Singapore, an earlier stop, after he answered their entreaties to tap out a tune...