Thailand

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Nine years after the "Crouching Tiger" breakthrough, Asian cinema has virtually disappeared from American screens
  • Asian athletes kick butt

    Sports are coming on strong in a region that has traditionally favored scholarship. Example: Thailand's prodigious women weightlifters.
  • Batman vs. the lavender genius of crime!

    I watched the great 10-hour Japanese antiwar film! Now it's your turn. Plus: Topiary genius, life after the tsunami, and a gay British crime lord.
  • Big Pharma and the bullies

    After getting kicked around by the likes of Thailand and Brazil, the pharmaceutical industry suddenly realizes, hey, maybe there's money to be made by lowering prices.
  • Global news roundup

    Feminists silenced in Iran, making noise in Mexico.
  • Bangkok train keeps on rolling

    The train that shares its tracks with a street market is no fake. A reader provides history and context
  • The barefoot art of war

    Thousands of Buddhist monks have hit the streets in Myanmar, deploying some shrewd political jujitsu against the corrupt, iron-fisted junta.
  • An unexpectedly popular papaya protest

    Thais in Bangkok know a bargain when they see one: Free genetically modified papayas, courtesy of Greenpeace
  • Hello Kitty, keeping cops honest

    In Thailand, unruly officers are forced to accessorize with a Hello Kitty armband.
  • A condom for every city

    Could New York, Thailand and India work together toward a future where every condom had a spokesperson and every city its own prophylactic?
  • Thailand recognizes marital rape

    The new law also redefines rape as a crime committed by a man or a woman.
  • Democrats.com's strange neocon bedfellow

    How did Thailand's effort to ensure cheap AIDS drugs become a supposed outsourcing scandal?
  • "Syndromes and a Century"

    A Thai filmmaker paints a rapturous, flowing picture of his parents' pre-love story.
  • Does Hallmark make virginity valentines?

    Thai teens seem intent on losing their virginity on the 14th.
  • W.H.O. are you?

    Bird flu, AIDS, heart disease: Thailand and Indonesia have lots of problems, but does the World Health Organization have the right answers?
  • Thailand takes off the gloves

    First, the Thai military overthrew a democracy. Now they're aiming at bigger game: Globalization
  • Gross international unhappiness

    Thailand's junta promised a new approach to economic management. The global financial community just gave it an F-.
  • Why Thailand isn't smiling at Big Pharma

    Free trade and AIDS in a post-coup, post-midterm election world.
  • Taming the Australian weed

    Are eucalyptus trees the next biofuel savior? A note of caution from California.
  • Downfall of a Thai free trader

    Are there lessons for Taiwan and China from the Thailand coup?
  • Thailand's great leap backward

    Déjà vu all over again: Thailand's year of living dangerously
  • "Bangkok Tattoo" by John Burdett

    In this follow-up to "Bangkok 8," Buddhist police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is back, exposing more corruption -- and hilarity -- in the Thai capital's red-light district.
  • "Bangkok 8" by John Burdett

    A contagious murder mystery with sex, violence and a beguiling take on the Thai way of looking at the world.
  • The dancing plant

    Darwin was obsessed by it, although even he never trained his weedy Asian shrub to twitch its leaves to the sound of music. But in a small town in northern Thailand ...
  • Thai one on

    A sex survey in several Asian countries reveals a special love of spanking in one nation.
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