Archive for December, 2007

Thai restaurant brings traditional music to its customers (SaukValley.com)

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

DIXON - For Mint Ditratthakit, playing music brings her a kind of peace. “There are times that she plays that it becomes like meditation,” Apiwat Yindeeroop said.

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Pastor’s wife enlists help in war on AIDS (The Wichita Eagle)

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

The matter-of-fact display on prostitution was startling enough. Then, a large remote-controlled condom floated above the conference hall. Kay Warren, wife of pastor Rick Warren, wondered, “What had I gotten myself into?” It was her first International AIDS Conference, in 2004 in Thailand. Just two years earlier, an article on how HIV was devastating African families led Kay Warren to take up …

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Top Negros athletes honored by SCOOP Bacolod Saturday (Sun Star)

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

NEGRENSE athletes whose exploits in various national and international competitions did the country proud will be recognized today when the Sports Communicators Organization of the Philippines (Scoop) Bacolod gives out its annual Scoop Awards in fitting ceremonies starting 3 p.m., at the Casa Linda of Bascon Hotel in Bacolod City.

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Why Is That Land Smiling? (New York Times)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

A professed grouch travels to pleasurable destinations and analyzes their formulas for happiness.

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On and off-field dramas color Indonesian soccer (The Jakarta Post)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

One day in 2022, Indonesia’s baron Nurdin Halid slouches on a sofa in his luxurious room at a seven-star hotel and switches on the cable TV to watch live coverage of the World Cup soccer final featuring … Indonesia versus Brazil.

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Bangkok’s back story: cooking, biking, chatting with monks (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

BANGKOK — The monks who watch over Wat Rajbopit, the King of Thailand’s private temple, are a friendly bunch…

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Bartender’s coffee and chocolate brew bags first prize (The Star)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

FOR two years in a row, contestants from the Holiday Inn Glenmarie have won the Passion for Coffee contest. Bartender Norazilah Abdullah won the first prize in this year’s contest for inventing Choco-rosso, a drink made from espresso coffee and chocolate.

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Investment, consumption keep rising in November (Bangkok Post)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Private investment and consumption continued to rise in November, according to the latest data released by the Bank of Thailand.

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December 2007 (Watertown Daily Times)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Wallace E. Nehls, 83, of Watertown, passed away Wednesday evening, Dec. 26, 2007, at Marquardt Memorial Manor in Watertown. A funeral service will be held Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Hafemeister Funeral Home in Watertown with the Rev. David Pries of Bethany Lutheran Church in Hustisford officiating.

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Sideswipe : Saturday (The New Zealand Herald)

Friday, December 28th, 2007

After the very outdated signs warning people not to turn right at Whitcoulls Corner on Queen St, Spencer Maxwell headed out with his camera and found more examples of the Auckland City Council “Getting on with” upgrading the road … very slowly.

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