On Sunday afternoons, the clang of traditional Indonesian percussion music known as gamelan wafts down the street, audible on the approach to the Indonesian Consulate on Manhattan's east side.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

He also is a commercial crabber and fisherman. He says if the shut down continues on the east side of the Mississippi, Louisiana's' seafood industry will survive,because 70 percent of the state's fish and shellfish come from the west side of the river.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08