An area without vehicular roads until after World War II, the remote peninsula sweeps southward from a canalized plain to a dense, tropical mangrove swamp on whose winding streams the Vietnamese fish.
Storms may develop unobserved in these remote places and sweep down suddenly on midocean islands or continental coasts.
But already icy winds and rains sweep across this remote crossing point in the Karakoram mountains, where China's north-western province of Xinjiang meets Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan region.Our bus pulls away, beginning the descent to the Pakistani border town of Sust.
Dozens of people are feared buried in a landslide that swept across a remote highway in Ecuador's mountains, officials said today.
Their arrival came almost 48 hours after a wall of snow and debris swept over the remote military base from where Pakistan guards its section of the desolate glacier against Indian forces.
He cited such "Today" innovations as sending Mr. Lauer out to surprise remote locations for a ratings-sweep stunt called "Where in the World Is Matt Lauer?" And "we did concerts when people said music on TV didn't work anymore," Mr. Zucker said, referring to the Friday-morning concerts by musical stars that have become a staple.
I remember footage of Enoch's speech leaking out of the TV when I was kid, and always feeling like I'd stumbled into some secret meeting between lizard-skinned old men discussing how best to keep their remote village's habitual cannibalism swept under the carpet.
The fusion of these cultures created a people that swept out into the remote Pacific islands, exploring 4500 kilometers in outrigger canoes and leaving a trail of distinctive pots behind.
By the late 1980s the ascendancy of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, and the discrediting of communism, meant that there were many more mentors -- even wealthy sponsors -- of the neo-liberal revolution that was to sweep across Latin America and the remotest regions of Asia and Africa.
See articleA landslide swept through a village in a remote part of north-east Afghanistan, killingat least 2,000 people.
