At the recent Manau festival held in Myitkyina there was a huge space - of at least a few acres – devoted to gambling and sideshow alley games. There were hundreds of different gambling and gaming outlets.
In this game of “wheel of fortune” most bets were significantly less than a dollar. Some gamblers were, however, running through their stacks of [...]
Tags: Burma · Kachin State · Manau · Snapshots
Not the Nation’s call for Samak to resign as Thai PM is spot on. Here is an extract:
Samak is nothing more than a nominee of the man in Hong Kong. He is not his own man. He’s a puppet. Can we afford to have puppets at the helm? Do we really want people lurking behind [...]
One of the biggest stories in the Australian press today is the closure of Mitsubishi’s Adelaide plant with the loss of 930 jobs. The Sydney Morning Herald reports:
A spokesman for Mitsubishi at its headquarters in Tokyo, Kai Inada, said the company could not see any recovery for larger cars like the 380 and the high [...]
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