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Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #68: Laos: Lazy Days Along the Mekong – Laos: The peaks of the fog-covered hills look like volcanoes floating on an ocean of fog, or nipples of well-rounded breasts peeping from beneath rich white layers of foam in a bathtub.
Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #66: Across the Heart of China: Buy a Mao Statue and Win the Lottery! Part II – China: From Communist ruler to pop icon, today Mao Zedong seems like a combination of George Washington and Vladimir Lenin.
Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #65: Across the Heart of China: Buy a Mao Statue and Win the Lottery! Part I – China: Modernism comes to inland China, but has the government made the right bet when Chinese tourists snap cameras like Westerners in Mozambique?
Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #63: Northwest China – China: Wee-Cheng expected a backward, dusty capital in a poor province, but China's mad rush to prosperity has turned Timbucktu into Las Vegas.
Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #64: Did Genghis Khan Lose His Organ (oops!) in China? – China: Genghis Khan's order to destroy an ancient kingdom may have had more to do with love gone bloody, than the accepted story of his death would have you believe.
Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #62: How Some Singaporeans Became Local Stars on the Steppes – Mongolia: The search for tarveg continues, but see what happens in the Orkhon Valley when Wee-Cheng partakes of a little too much arkhi and airag.
Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #61: In Search of the Furry Mongolian Groundhog – Karakorum, Mongolia: Autumn is the time for delicious tarveg, a Mongolian specialty for their own groundhog day.
Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #56: Turkmenistan: Admiring The Beloved Great Leader\’s Book in the City of Love, I – Turkmenistan: Much as Wee-Cheng likes the country and the friendly people, he can do without the personality cult politics and the ubiquitous national oath.
Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #57: Turkmenistan: Admiring The Beloved Great Leader\’s Book in the City of Love, II – Turkmenistan: Much as Wee-Cheng likes the country and the friendly people, he can do without the personality cult politics and the ubiquitous national oath.
Worldwide with Wee-Cheng #55: Baku, Azerbaijan: Short Foray in Boom Town – Baku, Azerbaijan: The local Azeris remind Wee-Cheng of the amazing hospitality so prevalent across the Caucasus and Central Asia.