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As she strolls through a park near her temporary home, Shen Lixiu glances warily at passers-by who may be listening in on her conversation.
The 53-year-old mother of two from China’s eastern Jiangsu province appears no different from other park...
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Several months back, the mentally insane government of North Korean leader Li’l Kim arrested two young U.S. journalists: Laura Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36.
This...
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After three days of Inaugural partying the most powerful man on earth is ready for business in office albeit lacking a little caution in his humanitarian zeal.
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Branded a terrorist outfit by the UN, Jamaat-ud-Dawa on Thursday sought to put up a defiant stance, claiming that it was not concerned
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A Singaporean is among those taken hostage during coordinated attacks across India’s commercial capital of Mumbai, the foreign ministry said Thursday.“The...
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Financial markets in Asia have risen sharply, with the Nikkei gaining 13% in morning trading, and Sydney up 5%.
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In his September 4 commentary titled Who Wants Cold War II? [1], Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli foreign minister, proposes a new world order in which the United...
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A joint session of parliament in Islamabad has heard, in camera, the newly-appointed ISI Director General Lt Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha — who was Director General Military...
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In the mid-1990s, Asian feminists concerned about the sexual exploitation of children and women and the growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS urged Susan Thistlethwaite and me...
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In the debate, Barack Obama called North Korea’s nuclear re-boot a symptom of the country’s internal politics. But this nuclear breakdown may have less to...
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I am not a sociologist but observant. And, I don’t feel embarrassed if *others* find my views provocative, lecherous, or unsuitable. Damn with them. Two raging issues...
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The Chinese girls won six gold medals to outshine North Korea and India. India had won the last Asian Championship.
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After the melamine-tainted milk in China found its way to Korea, Seoul responded by improving their food labeling requirements for imported food.
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China on Monday deported a British woman and a German man who took part in a protest during the Olympic Games, officials said, hours after eight American activists were...
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Yi Danxuan, an exiled Chinese dissident who participated in the 1989 student-led pro-democracy protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square poses in front of a lion statue in Hong Kong Wednesday, March 11, 2009. Yi says he has been barred from entering China...
