Nine years after the "Crouching Tiger" breakthrough, Asian cinema has virtually disappeared from American screens
By Andrew O'Hehir Jun 25, 2009
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Sports are coming on strong in a region that has traditionally favored scholarship. Example: Thailand's prodigious women weightlifters.
By John Krich
August 13, 2008
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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.
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 18, 2008
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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.
By Andrew Leonard
May 20, 2008
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Feminists silenced in Iran, making noise in Mexico.
By Lynn Harris
January 30, 2008
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The train that shares its tracks with a street market is no fake. A reader provides history and context
By Andrew Leonard
October 18, 2007
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Thousands of Buddhist monks have hit the streets in Myanmar, deploying some shrewd political jujitsu against the corrupt, iron-fisted junta.
By Jürgen Kremb
September 26, 2007
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Thais in Bangkok know a bargain when they see one: Free genetically modified papayas, courtesy of Greenpeace
By Andrew Leonard
August 29, 2007
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In Thailand, unruly officers are forced to accessorize with a Hello Kitty armband.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
August 6, 2007
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Could New York, Thailand and India work together toward a future where every condom had a spokesperson and every city its own prophylactic?
By Catherine Price
July 3, 2007
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The new law also redefines rape as a crime committed by a man or a woman.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
June 22, 2007
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How did Thailand's effort to ensure cheap AIDS drugs become a supposed outsourcing scandal?
By Andrew Leonard
April 25, 2007
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A Thai filmmaker paints a rapturous, flowing picture of his parents' pre-love story.
By Stephanie Zacharek
April 20, 2007
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Thai teens seem intent on losing their virginity on the 14th.
By Catherine Price
February 13, 2007
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Bird flu, AIDS, heart disease: Thailand and Indonesia have lots of problems, but does the World Health Organization have the right answers?
By Andrew Leonard
February 8, 2007
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First, the Thai military overthrew a democracy. Now they're aiming at bigger game: Globalization
By Andrew Leonard
January 26, 2007
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Thailand's junta promised a new approach to economic management. The global financial community just gave it an F-.
By Andrew Leonard
December 19, 2006
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Free trade and AIDS in a post-coup, post-midterm election world.
By Andrew Leonard
November 29, 2006
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Are eucalyptus trees the next biofuel savior? A note of caution from California.
By Andrew Leonard
November 13, 2006
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Are there lessons for Taiwan and China from the Thailand coup?
By Andrew Leonard
September 25, 2006
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Déjà vu all over again: Thailand's year of living dangerously
By Andrew Leonard
September 19, 2006
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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.
By Laura Miller
June 6, 2005
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A contagious murder mystery with sex, violence and a beguiling take on the Thai way of looking at the world.
By Laura Miller
June 12, 2003
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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 ...
By Christopher Kemp
March 11, 2003
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A sex survey in several Asian countries reveals a special love of spanking in one nation.
By Jack Boulware
March 16, 2001
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