Word: asia
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...severe. In some cultures, sex between men is prohibited outright; in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania in Africa, for example, gay sex is cause for execution, which drives many men underground and increases their likelihood of engaging in risky sex. Robert Gray, regional representative of Population Services International (PSI) Asia, an international NGO, predicts that this high-risk group will become a major driving force of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia, Eastern Europe and other places over the next decade...
...quickly the leadership in Beijing has responded to your initiatives? The U.S. and the mainland were very worried about what was happening in Taiwan because of [the previous administration's] diplomatic adventurism and a rather antagonistic attitude toward the mainland. Now, the U.S. and Japan and [the rest of Asia] can rest assured that confrontation is unlikely in the Taiwan Strait. Mainland China poses a threat to Taiwan, but it is also an opportunity. So the problem is your own mind-set. Are we going to take the mainland as a threat only? Or do we take it as both...
...questions of geostrategy. An independent Georgia is critical to the international flow of oil. A pipeline for crude oil now runs from Baku in Azerbaijan, on the Caspian Sea, through Georgia to the Turkish Mediterranean coast. The link provides the West access to the energy resources of central Asia. If that access is cut, the Western world will lose an important opportunity to diversify its sources of energy...
...Stone hailed it as "an explosive album by a band whose shows wow orgiasts from Seattle to Kiev." That raucous live show - something akin to a traveling circus, with Hutz as the ringmaster - is packing in bigger and bigger venues and brings its alfresco mayhem to festivals around Europe, Asia and North America this summer. Meanwhile, Hutz the hipster style icon, is the inspiration for this Fall's Gucci menswear collection. And in October, he'll follow his dazzling 2005 turn in the film Everything is Illuminated, with a lead part in the Madonna-directed movie Filth and Wisdom...
...Chinese standards, it was a calm response. "Those foreign protesters appear to have been handled with a relative level of restraint by security forces," says Phelim Kine, an Asia researcher for Human Rights Watch, an NGO based in New York City. "In the eyes of the Chinese government, the priority isn't to punish those individuals - they want them removed from the scene and off their hands. They're an embarrassment...