IRRI Pioneer Interviews–Challenges for IRRI: Ronnie Coffman
Ryans Newscast
Today I knocked a monk off of a motorbike…
Ok so I should explain that there are no traffic laws in Siem Reap. Bike motorbike and garbage truck all share the same lane and turn stop start and pass whenever they like. So trying to be confident and not get myself killed on my brand new Cambodian bicycle I turn forcefully to the right and pray that there is nothing in front or behind me.There was. A monk on a motoribke hit my back whee
Last day in Phnom Penh
Yesterday I went to see the Russian Market. This was certainly the best market I’ve seen in Phnom Penh and there were many things that I would have liked to have bought there. It had a great many types of food and drink on display including some things I think were eels. These were black and snakelike with cylindrical bodies and lay flat on a sort of plate. Then as I was looking idly at them
Six Surprising Discoveries Have Appeared during the Excavation of Qin Terracotta Warriors
Pottery figurines, ceramic horses, weaponries, war chariots, color paintingsmany surprising discoveries have appeared during the third excavation (started from June 13, 2009) of the Pit No.1 of Qin Terracotta Warriorsin Shaanxi Province.
The 6 surprising discoveries are as follows:
No.1 Two closely-connected chariots
Two closely-connected chariots were discovered in the G9 Passageway, with 4 horses beside each chariot. Many other armors and terracotta warriors have been discovered as well.
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Railway Linking "fairylands" on Earth Being under Construction
A construction kick-off meeting was held on June 10th, 2009 for Lijiang—Shangri-la Railway. And this railway will be put into operation after 3 years.
The construction will start from Lijiang, go by Tiger Leaping Gorge and Xiaozhongdian Village, and then reach Shangri-la. It is the first-class railway which adopts electronic engines and with a speed of 120 kilometers/ hour. Lijiang—Shangri-la Railway belongs to the Dianzang Railway whose construction is still under discussion and will lin…
SpiderNan and The Lady Boys
We spent a lovely few days lying by the pool and at the beach on our first trip to white sand beach when we were eating lunch mum got bitten by a very hairy and mean looking spider considering thatrsquos how Peter Parker became Spiderman I think mum may now be SpiderNan As we hadnrsquot seen much of the island we booked ourselves onto an unknown Koh Chang day trip it started off with
Chiang Mai
My trip to Chiang Mai began with the night train from Bangkok. I think it was here that I caught the bed bugs. I now have a hot itchy rash up both my legs but it’s getting better. I ventured into the buffet car with a couple of Dutch guys for a beer but made my excuses to get to bed when the karaoke started with ‘It’s raining men’ being screamed by middle aged drunk Dutch women. Instead of bei