Word: asia
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...East Asia's fledgling hip-hop scene could have asked for no better boost than the arrival of Jin Au-Yeung. The 26-year-old Chinese-American rapper relocated to Hong Kong from New York City this summer in a move either born of frustration at a flagging Stateside career or of a wish to connect more strongly with his roots (his parents are from Hong Kong) - or both...
...festive mood survives to this day, as the city in September celebrated the opening of three major art fairs, one of which, ShContemporary, showcased not only top contemporary Chinese artists, but also emerging talent from more than 20 different countries. ShContemporary ranks as Asia's first international art fair, and the fact that it takes place in Shanghai is no coincidence. Shanghai may be in China, but its ambitions have always extended beyond the Middle Kingdom. Note, for instance, that China's regional bloc with the Central Asian nations - the People's Republic's only formal attempt at international alliance...
...Sara Rhodin is a master’s degree candidate in Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia at the Gradute School of Arts and Sciences. She spent her summer interning for The New York Times bureau in Moscow...
...sheer scale of the carnage cannot be denied. Sydney Schanberg, then the New York Times's South Asia correspondent, described the month-long Pakistani crackdown in March 1971 as "a pogrom on a vast scale" in a land where "vultures grow fat." (He would famously win a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting five years later on Cambodia's killing fields.) Passing through the charred husks of villages razed by West Pakistani troops, he heard whispered story after story of mass executions of Hindus, college students and anybody suspected of Bengali nationalism. Neighborhoods were gutted as Bangladesh's main cities fell...
...polls will be part of the regime's seven-point "Roadmap to Democracy." Burma, also known as Myanmar, has been ruled by a series of repressive military regimes since 1962. Classified by the United Nations as among the world?s least developed countries, the agrarian nation in southeast Asia is still recovered from May's Cyclone Nargis, which killed an estimated 80,000 people and devastated the country?s rice-growing region. Almost none of those released, however, were political prisoners, of which Amnesty International estimates there are about 2100 in the country. Win Tin said he complained to prison...