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Early Drought Affects Thai-lao Transport Across Mekong

Bernama - Feb 21, 2012
NAKHON PHANOM, Feb 21 (Bernama) -- An early drought this year is affecting boats and ships sailing across the Thai-Laos border through the Mekong River, carrying either goods or travellers. people in Thailand's northeastern Nakhon Phanom Province along ...

Food, water, energy pressure on Mekong economies to rise this decade

The Nation - Feb 20, 2012
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries, including Thailand, will face challenges in managing food, water and energy this decade given rising demand, experts said yesterday. Speaking yesterday at a conference on "GMS 2020: Balancing Economic ...

Mekong tributary becomes sewer

VietNamNet Bridge - Feb 20, 2012
VietNamNet Bridge – The section of Tien River, which is one of two main branches of the Cuu Long (Mekong) River running through Viet Nam, is heavily polluted by daily and industrial waste. Residents who live on the riverbanks said seafood processing ...

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Mekong books

The Return: A Novel of Vietnam

by: Charles W. Sasser
When LCDR Pete Brauer, former U.S. Navy SEAL (retired), dies in Florida, he dies clutching in his hands the portrait of a beautiful French-Vietnamese girl that has hung on his wall for more than twenty years.

“I will never forgive myself, Pollack,” Brauer told his neighbor and friend, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Jack Kazmarek (retired). “I don’t think God will either.”

“We’ve all done things,” Kazmarek replied. “Especially in Vietnam.”

“We haven’t all done what I done.
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Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey Through Southeast Asia

by: Jeffrey Alford, Naomi Duguid
Luminous at dawn and dusk, the Mekong is a river road, a vibrant artery that defines a vast and fascinating region. Here, along the world's tenth largest river, which rises in Tibet and joins the sea in Vietnam, traditions mingle and exquisite food prevails.

Award-winning authors Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid followed the river south, as it flows through the mountain gorges of southern China, to Burma and into Laos and Thailand. For a while the right bank of the river is in Thailand, but then it becomes solely Lao on its way to Cambodia.
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories

The thirty-three stories in this volume prove that American short fiction maybe be our most distinctive national art form. As selected and introduced by Tobias Wolff, they also make up an alternate map of the United States that represents not just geography but narrative traditions, cultural heritage, and divergent approaches.

Contributors and stories include: Mary Gaitskill, "A Romantic Weekend"; Thom Jones, "A White Horse";  Andre Dubus, "The Fat Girl"; Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"; Chris Offutt, "Aunt Granny Lith"; Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"; Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"; Robert Stone, "Helping";  Mona Simpson, "Lawns";  Ann Beattie, "A Vintage Thunderbird"; Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl"; Stuart Dybek, "Chopin in Water"; Barry Hannah, "Testimony of Pilot";  John Edgar Wideman, "Daddy Garbage"; Ron Hansen, "Wickedness"; Denis Johnson, "Emergency"; Edward P.
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