Russian has 120 officially recognized ethnic minorities,Chin a another 50. Most are in Asia, on the border between the former Soviet Union and newly capitalist Chin a. The demands of these minorities, violent ...
It is now obvious to everyone, even the most strenuous defenders of laissez-faire, that the major crisis caused by the subprime loans marks the end of an era. George Soros, one of the best-known and most ...
The planet is in dire need of global governance to restore balance to a model of development that continues to penalize the world’s South, stem the trend towards environmental degradation, manage financial ...
... of the first consistent European plan to reduce emissions. The second relates to the relaunchin g of the European Union 50 years after it was formed. The Dossier (with contributions by Donato Speroni, Fiorella ...
Scheduled to take place on 22 and 23 June at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, the first Forum on the process of European enlargement is being promoted by east, the Venice 2000 Foundation, UniCredit and the ...
... fast catchin g on, as can be seen in articles in the leading international press reproduced in the section “Points of View” (page 143). But scientists are instead quite clear that the Kyoto Protocol, despite ...
A full field defence of the great accomplishments of the Union. But without hiding the difficulties of the moment: what should be done if one or more countries do not ratify the new Constitution? In an ...
... segment of the population. In Chin a, Google is pulling out to avoid government censorship.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban continues blackmailing families to discourage them from sending their children to ...
The Cultural Revolution of the 1960s devastated most of Chin a’s traditional festivals. As puts Mao’s legacy into the past, a number of colorful festivals are gradually clawing their way back to the forefront. ...
As Chin a’s domestic economic prowess grows, so does its interest in developing a local fashion industry. But with uniformity placed ahead of originality, developing stylists is a difficult task. Moreover, ...
... Chin ese repression against Tibet in the late 1950s, that parlous trip fell into the hand of Tibetan exiles ?eeing home. Many are no older than Tenzin, seeking deliverance from harm’s way.
The warm light ...
... in the fall of 1962, when Chin a and India fought a monthlong border war following Himalayan border dispute.
A few days before the Langur exorcism I had witnessed the Porangpagmu, or “rite of the needle,” ...
... the camera lens. The idea was to bar authorities from watchin g the demonstrators. Yet the camera wasn’t destroyed. Instead, almost politely, it was covered by a jute bag, suggesting that even the demonstrators ...
... engineers, Simferopol inaugurated what is still the world’s largest trolleybus route, from here to Yalta. The 85-kilometer route passes through the Crimean Mountains across the Angarskyi Pass, reachin g ...
... There’s also the ?ea market called Chin atown. Some four million people visit the mall annually. If the economics of the Czech border depend on the sex trade, the Hungarian corridor of fers... dentists. ...
... (she is now 81), she’d evolved into the country’s most famous dissident. Religion and its teachin g was a centerpiece of her plan; so was agricultural policy that would stop all the countryside destruction ...
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(2010/east 31 - Special report - The other Kabul - English (United Kingdom))
... lower level Moscow bureaucrats are attachin g them to their cars in an effort to make like VIPs and bypass traffic that bottles up common folk.
Every week, limousines, SUVs and Mercedes fitted with ...
... of Pakistan. It was a place of open sewers and screechin g children and was the home of Saifullah, one of the ?rst victims of America’s 2001 attack on Afghanistan. He had been a student who had taken money ...
... and women from the former Soviet republics for custom at lower prices. In the older parts of the city, Deira and Bur Dubai, Chin ese women undercut them all in the lobbies of three-star hotels or even on ...
... and fringed with deep gold fringe, and should have diamond or pearl buttons. My caftan of the same stuff with my drawers is a robe exactly ?tted to my shape and reachin g to my feet, of abut four ?ngers ...
