Visitors to Southeast Asia are often told street food offers the most authentic dining experience. There is a sweaty thrill to chowing down with the locals.
Thailand, though, is the top location for Britons suffering food poisoning, according to a Norwich Union survey, which might remove some of the sweetness from those roadside iced- pineapple chunks or spice from that late-night tom yam gong.
Yet you can safely savor fabulous food cheaply in Bangkok at eateries...... (read more)
Shirley Apthorp
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It all went horribly wrong. In China, Gu Cheng was one of the most celebrated poets of the 1980s, a rebel reading for cheering stadium crowds.
As an emigrant in New Zealand, he lived an increasingly isolated and unstable life. In 1993, at the age of 37, he murdered his wife with an ax and then hanged himself.
Gu's strange life and brutal end are the inspiration for ``Mercury Light World,'' a new opera by Chinese composer Cong Su opening in Berlin Tuesday. Cong...... (read more)
Stories of combat and colonialism took centre stage at this year's Cannes Film Festival, sweeping the top awards at the expense of less militant fare.
U.K. director Ken Loach (pictured below) was recognised for his film ``The Wind That Shakes the Barley,'' a violent account of the Irish struggle for independence from British rule in the 1920s, which won the main Palme d'Or award. The runner-up Grand Prix went to Bruno Dumont's ``Flandres'' (``Flanders'') about a young man's enlistment in a...... (read more)
Business Day has published a feature to celebrate 12 years of freedom in South Africa, since the April 27, 1994 voting, a day that has since then become knows as Freedom Day
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