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...first issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review, dated Oct. 16, 1946-14 months after the Japanese surrendered Hong Kong-ran a report saying the colony's Kai Tak airport would have to be replaced by a facility on a bigger, safer site. Kai Tak, in fact, grew and prospered and lasted another 51 years. The Review lasted even longer, reporting on business and political issues from every country in the region. But last week owner Dow Jones & Co. announced that following six unprofitable years, the Review would be turned into a monthly periodical of opinion pieces...
Amdan Senne didn't know any of the dead, but last Thursday the 23-year-old civil servant from the district of Tak Bai in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province volunteered to act as a coffin-bearer at a funeral for 22 men. They were among 85 killed when what started as a peaceful protest outside the local police station went horribly wrong. Now, three days later, as rifle-toting soldiers stood watch, the shrouded bodies were first laid out under the hot sun on a field next to the 380-year-old ironwood Wadi al-Hussein mosque. Prayers were...
...story of those who died in Tak Bai began on Monday, Oct. 25, a sultry day with the promise of rain in the air. That morning, about 2,000 Muslim villagers?men, women and children?gathered in a small park across the road from the police station. They had come to demand freedom for six men arrested for allegedly providing arms to Islamic separatist fighters. But the authorities were in no mood to oblige. In the station courtyard stood hundreds of heavily armed police and soldiers brought in to deal with the protest, their weapons drawn. At either...
...Some street stalls are converted pickup trucks. The flatbed serves as a work surface and tabletop, and makes for the perfect pit stop during a night of carousing. These roving canteens usually serve tak go chi, or chicken skewers, the staple stomach-liner for Seoul's legions of soju-imbibing salarymen. More adventurous eaters, meanwhile, will want to keep an eye out for pig intestines stuffed with glass noodles; octopus tentacles; and the infamous bon dae gi-boiled silkworm larvae. To the uninitiated gourmand, a simmering bucket of larvae might look-and smell-distinctly less than alluring, but there...
...Shoot To Thrill (lawrencechiu.com/kaitakairport) Photo Finish Hong Kong photographer Lawrence Chiu documented the last few years of Kai Tak's history, often waiting hours for the perfect plane shot. He continues to exhibit and sell his dramatic photos online...