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...pairs of shivering Filipinos in heavy jackets walking on the streets of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Nor is it uncommon to hear Sakhaliners muttering darkly about how unwanted migrants have brought crime and disease, and have driven down the wages of native workers. Locals complain that the workers from abroad will be a drain on the island's welfare system. "We worry that they will stay here and exploit our infrastructure," says Svetlana Soldakina, a local activist. "It's not that our island is unfriendly, but our city will burst...
Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning is home to 100 faculty members and almost 800 students, many of whom come from abroad...
...London from people who thought this would be a good location for us,” Shamon said. “And when we came here, we found that Wagamama’s already had a following here, mainly from people who’d studied or travelled abroad...
Thai media outlets, which have generally supported the country's military leaders, sniffed disapproval at Thaksin's populist tactics. "THAKSIN'S SUBTLE POLITICAL WAR FROM ABROAD", ran one headline in the Nation newspaper. But Thailand's ruling generals could use a little positive spin themselves. Although the junta has promised to hold elections by the end of this year, the draft constitution up for referendum this weekend rolls back certain democratic reforms introduced in the previous charter. And despite promises that the military would withdraw from politics, a junta aide has hinted that coup leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin might throw...
...opposition is deeply divided on a number of issues, none more so than Iraq and the role of the military. Though most of the party's newer representatives in the Upper House side with Ozawa on Iraq, there's a hawkish faction within the DPJ that supports military action abroad. Should Ozawa push too hard, he could see his fragile party fall apart. At the same time, the DPJ needs to prove to a still skeptical Japanese public that it's capable of governing, not just opposing. Playing politics with the nation's military isn't the best...