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...Henan province Chung to, founder and director of the nonprofit Chi Heng Foundation in Hong Kong, is one of the few outsiders who has penetrated the state-imposed isolation of the so-called AIDS villages in central China. He is all too familiar with the plight of small children orphaned by the disease. On a recent visit to a village in Henan, he watched an 8-year-old boy taking his father out for a walk. The boy was pushing his father along in a creaky wooden cart. The man was dying of AIDS and had been confined...
...Some street stalls are converted pickup trucks. The flatbed serves as a work surface and tabletop, and makes for the perfect pit stop during a night of carousing. These roving canteens usually serve tak go chi, or chicken skewers, the staple stomach-liner for Seoul's legions of soju-imbibing salarymen. More adventurous eaters, meanwhile, will want to keep an eye out for pig intestines stuffed with glass noodles; octopus tentacles; and the infamous bon dae gi-boiled silkworm larvae. To the uninitiated gourmand, a simmering bucket of larvae might look-and smell-distinctly less than alluring, but there...
...EXECUTED. TRUONG VAN CAM, a.k.a. Nam Cam, 57, Vietnam's most notorious criminal godfather; by firing squad; in Ho Chi Minh City. Cam was convicted last June on charges including murder and bribery. His three-month trial exposed connections between his extensive gambling and prostitution rackets and senior Communist Party officials...
While the Mt. Auburn location seems prime to attract the daily traffic of students and tourists, its entrance might be working against it. According to Taylor, an exposed corner of the Fox Club is pointed at Felipe’s entrance, disproportionately directing bad chi, or life energy, at the restaurant...
...once they overcome the bad chi and enter the building, customers will be quite likely to return. The room’s central column, “a beautiful thing” in Taylor’s eyes, faces the door without exposing customers to any more unseemly corners...