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RIVER BLEND The stilt village of Bang Yai, 12 km to the northwest of Bangkok, may seem like a long way to travel for coffee but Poon, my taxi-boat driver, promised me it was worth the trip when I stepped into his boat nursing a cup of Starbucks, of which he clearly disapproved. That's how my erstwhile tour of the old klongs of Bangkok was transformed into a quest for authentic kafae thung, or Thai bag coffee. We took off from Nonthaburi, a small town just north of Bangkok. As we quietly chugged through the network of canals...
...author of Cuisine of Cambodia. And the business is creating a chain of modest wealth for farmers and sellers, making insects a commodity distributed across Thailand as efficiently as, say, artichokes in California. Tongchart supplies wholesalers as far north as Chiang Rai and as far south as Hat Yai. Some of them, in turn, are exporting to places like Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan. The meat and potatoes, so to speak, of the insect biz are grasshoppers, beetles and bamboo worms. Some delectables, such as spiders, remain specialty items. "They're big, black and hairy," says Nusara, and she ought...
...morning last week, 30 girls in dresses or skirts and freshly laundered shirts sat chatting on two wooden benches in front of the building. Next to them a young man held a laminated charter of "rules" for hiring the girls. "I don't recognize this as African," says Constance Yai, a former Ivory Coast minister of family and social affairs who is now president of the private Ivorian Association for Women's Rights. "It's commerce pure and simple...
...November. Last year Ivory Coast and Mali agreed to crack down on the trade between the two countries and announced a range of rehabilitation efforts to help children who return home. But the region's porous borders and ill-equipped police forces make it easy for smuggling to continue. Yai says it's time for West Africa to get tough: "Are you going to tell me that as long as we have not eliminated poverty, we're going to keep selling children like objects and making them suffer? Poverty encourages this kind of activity, yes. But failing to put children...
...final week of shooting on Jan Dara, and the location is Khao Yai National Park, a two-hour drive from Bangkok, where a lavish set has been prepared to resemble an aristocratic complex of five houses from the 1950s. Work begins at a wrenching 6 a.m. and drags on for 22 hours, and the temperature is soaring. It will soon get hotter. The final scene in the production schedule is a sybaritic consummation of furtive desire between two female characters. That has created anticipation, apprehension, curiosity and some plain old sauciness that one suspects was the intention from the start...