Word: asianness
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...anything does it get from the U.S? This is the kind of question facing Washington now, sources say. "There is a robust discussion going on in Washington and with U.S. allies about how to approach this opportunity, but I can't say anything is settled yet," says one east Asian diplomat...
...student at Branford High School in Branford, Conn., Clark joined the Interact Club, which focused on such community problems as homelessness, and the Asian Awareness Club. He also played quarterback for the football team and pitched for the baseball team. (Read "Do Early-Release Programs Raise the Crime Rate...
...numbers of asylum-seekers, much more in the order of tens of thousands than those we are seeing," Immigration Minister Chris Evans told the Senate in Canberra on Sept. 14. The government is striving to curb human smugglers by improving ties with law-enforcement agencies and border guards in Asian transit countries. On Sept. 15, Evans also announced that Australia has pledged $15.5 million to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime and the International Organization for Migration...
...high-profile suspects in connection with the latest hotel bombings. The captures aren't a one-off occurrence. Four years ago, Indonesian commandoes killed Azahari bin Husin, the key bomb-maker for Jemaah Islamiah (JI), the extremist network that has as its stated goal the creation of a pan-Asian Islamic caliphate. Noordin is suspected of having been a central JI strategist before forming an even more radical, al-Qaeda-linked offshoot that carried out the July hotel bombings. (Read "Indonesia's Most Wanted Terrorist is Reported Killed...
...many audience members, the event was a rare coming together of the usually disparate segments of Harvard’s active ethnic communities to discuss one of the most controversial issues in public life. Among the groups represented were the student associations for Harvard’s black, Chinese, Asian American, South Asian and Latin American communities. “Despite our campus being so diverse, a lot of students of the same ethnic backgrounds group together and don’t really mix as much as you’d think,” said HPU Chairman Shankar...