Word: trang
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...Sinedu Tadesse ’96 killed her roommate Trang Phuong Ho ’96 by stabbing Ho multiple times before hanging herself in the bathroom of their suite. Tadesse also injured Ho’s visiting friend, who was sleeping in her room at the time, but the friend survived...
...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, but securing onward bookings can be difficult. Visit www.vr.com.vn for details. BEIJING-LHASA: One of the literal highs of a journey to the Middle Kingdom is the new Qinghai-Tibet railway, making it possible to go from the Chinese...
...October, there are usually several nights that dip below 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Last fall, Cambridge experienced its first snowfall on October 30. “Usually, people expect chilly nights and frost in the morning, but that hasn’t been the case,” Gresaik said. Trang T. Pham ’10, a Boston native, said she has definitely noticed the warmer temperatures. “The past two weeks have been amazing,” says Pham. “Usually, by this time, I would be wearing a winter jacket...
...endangering myself by being so immodest as to travel alone (at night no less!).Auspiciously, both Western and the more traditional Vietnamese gender roles are being broken down. Here, more and more women defy social conventions, stepping beyond family and farm to create their own economic opportunities. Try telling Trang, a woman I met who works six days a week in a bar and studies English and computer science all seven, that she would be better off at home with her rice-farmer parents; or Minh, a business student working twelve-hour shifts as a waitress six days a week...
...floodplains of Soc Trang province in Vietnam's Mekong Delta are a maze of rivers and canals dotted with villages so impoverished that local farmers earn less than $1 a day. It is not an obvious place to seek a fortune, but capitalism finds a way. Steering his ramshackle boat along the Ke Sat River, Nguyen Van Hon operates a floating sundries distributorship. The wooden hold of his boat is heavy with boxes containing small bars of Lifebuoy soap and single-use sachets of Sunsilk shampoo, which he sells to riverside shopkeepers for as little as 2.5? each...