by Patricia H. Kushlis | Sep 29, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Not long after arriving in Bangkok in 1973 I heard the story of Jim Thompson’s strange disappearance in Malaysia’s Cameron Highlands Easter Sunday 1967. This was the tragic tale of a prominent American businessman and former OSS officer who had...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 2, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Also see two companion pieces: http://whirledview.typepad.com/whirledview/2014/05/ kanishka-in-kashgar-a-report-from-the-fringes-of-the-chinese-empire.html and...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jan 20, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The US State Department recently issued a travel advisory to American citizens planning to attend the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi, Russia in February and March. Often the media ignores or fails to publish the Department’s Travel...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 14, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Delhi was still the smallish, palimpsest city the British handed over to independent India when I first lived here. I fell in love with the whole of it: the convoluted lanes of old Delhi; the impressive remnants of earlier civilizations; the...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Sep 19, 2012 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe.Ha! Ha! Ha! Not only am I laughing out loud, I’m rolling around on my nice but not outrageously expensive carpet from Pakistan and laughing. Back in May Mitt Romney was on a begging session among his fellow rich guys in a supposedly safe place,...