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Last week’s deadly rioting that resulted after the central government refused the king of Buganda, Uganda’s largest ethnic group from traveling to one of his counties, left over 20 people dead and property worth billions of shillings...
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Will it be China that finally pays the huge bills for repairing and rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq — and reaps the rewards? It’s looking that way: as the US and...
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Our huge hue and cry over the Chinese aggression matters little to china. We are no match for them and they know that very well. So they hold us in contempt for being a...
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China has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past decade, as migrant workers made enough money in the country’s economic boom to hire more...
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I’ve never understood the affinity between communists and Islamists. When it comes to spirituality they are polar opposites- Communists are atheists, and...
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A TOP China air force commander has called the militarisation of space an “historical inevitability”, state media said today, marking an apparent shift in...
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Oh! What a strange! Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, is dauntless to throw charge against the Pakistani Government. “Pakistan is safe haven for Al Qaeda since...
made popular Nov 3 2009
A bus plunged into a valley along a mountainous road in China’s northern Shanxi province, killing 13 people and injuring at least 40 others, local police and the...
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This Halloween, prepare to be scared in China.
The country’s first Halloween haunted house attraction is spooking the crowds in Shanghai, with its creators...
made popular Oct 28 2009
Somehow the People’s Republic of China looks down upon India, since its inception, and keeps frightening its neighbour quite often. Surprisingly, its relations...
made popular Oct 27 2009
All the students at Luolang Elementary School, a yellow-and-orange concrete structure off a winding mountain road in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in...
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China’s GDP increased 8.9 percent for the third quarter, moving closer toward the goal of 8 percent growth for the year.
Growth for the first three quarters of...
made popular Oct 23 2009
After she refused a corrupt cop’s demand that she turn her teahouse into an illegal casino, three thugs beat Chen Yanling with electric batons, sending her to the...
made popular Oct 22 2009
A Chinese ship with 146 people aboard was hijacked Monday in the Indian Ocean, the European Union Naval Force said.
The bulk carrier De Xin Hai was hijacked around...
made popular Oct 20 2009
Around two dozen comics from the country are on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, with writers, publishers and agents hopeful of a gradual easing of censorship in one...
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Six people were sentenced to death Thursday for their involvement in a deadly ethnic riot in western China in July, the official Chinese news agency reported. Three of...
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This afternoon more than a dozen Liberians are expected at the Samuel Doe sports stadium in the capital, Monrovia. In a makeshift classroom with some plastic chairs and...
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With the global recession making consumers and businesses more price-conscious, China is grabbing market share from its export competitors, solidifying a dominance in...
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China is slowly and gradually taking control of poor countries that surround India. By throwing up economic support to smaller countries, these countries are getting...
made popular Oct 13 2009
Visitors can smell this village long before they see it.
More than 100 dump trucks piled high with garbage line the narrow road leading to Zhanglidong, waiting to...
made popular Oct 12 2009
What a difference an election makes! After eight years of George Bush cowboy wars and embarrassing stupidity, during which the United States suffered a great decline in...
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Fresh protests have been reported in the province of Xinjiang in western China, where almost 200 people were killed in ethnic violence in July.
Hundreds of ethnic Han...
made popular Sep 3 2009
Tribesmen trying to steal cattle attacked a village in southern Sudan, sparking a conflict that killed 46 people, including seven soldiers, the U.N. said Monday.
The...
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On a gray and rainy Saturday, five young men are gathered at the Body Guard music studio in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. The modest one-story building has...
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China has vowed to execute protesters responsible for the deaths of 156 people in violent protests in Xingjiang province.
Li Zhi, the Communist Party’s highest...
made popular Jul 9 2009
Some women glared through their black veils at the paramilitary troops encircling them. Others held identity cards of missing relatives in the air. Fists raised, tears...
made popular Jul 8 2009
In almost every bed in Ward Two of Nasir hospital in South Sudan, there lies a patient with a bullet wound.
“I was hit in my leg, when the soldiers started...
made popular Jul 8 2009
Streets had reverted to calm and curfews were in force in major districts of Urumqi as the death toll mounted from rioting.
Police halted people who had gathered in...
made popular Jul 7 2009
China said a riot that shook the capital of the western Xinjiang region killed 140 people and the government called the ethnic unrest a plot against its power,...
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Sindh government has decided to allow the victims of Swat operation, the internally displaced people (IDP), to live in Karachi and other parts of the province. However,...
made popular May 29 2009
Last century was marked deep ethnic tensions between Croats and Serbs. These tensions erupted most violent way during WWII and Yugoslavia’s breakup wars early 1990s....
made popular Nov 19 2008
In January, one of Africa’s most stable democracies was ripping itself apart. How was it saved? Part 2 of four.
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When Luke Kibet won the world marathon championship last August, he became a favorite to achieve what no Kenyan has despite this country’s istance-running...
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A rocky cliff overlooking the Maasai Mara Game Reserve marks a new front line in a conflict between people and wildlife that threatens the revival of Kenya’s $1...
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The ethnic violence has erupted again in the North Eastern state of India, Assam on Saturday. The terror outfit ULFA have killed as many as 15 people in Tinsukia...
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