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...education officials in the western province of Sichuan who were implicated in taking bribes from textbook publishers, with one accused of pocketing $75,000 and passing the cost to university students, according to the Sichuan government. The vice director of Beijing's transportation department, who was arrested on August 15, was quoted by state media as having explained away the million dollars in cash reportedly found in his apartment as minor gifts and "tea money." And at the conclusion of the Party plenum, it was announced that Tian Fengshan, a former Minister of Land and Natural Resources, had been expelled...
When Somsak Laemphakwan's chickens started dying in early August, he buried the corpses deep in the ground, hoping to halt the bird flu ravaging his village in northwest Thailand. It didn't work. Later that month, his 11-year-old niece Sakuntala Premphasri developed a stomachache and a high fever. When Somsak took her to a nearby clinic on Sept. 2, nurses dismissed her illness as a common cold. Five days later Sakuntala was back in the clinic, unable to walk and vomiting blood. She was sent to the district hospital, and her mother, Pranee Thongchan, was summoned from...
...cull sick chickens and do spot checks on potential new outbreaks. His biggest challenge is to get poultry-dependent villages like Srisomboon, where Sakuntala Premphasri lived, onto the program. Villagers told a TIME reporter that even though they knew their chickens were likely dying of bird flu in August, they did not alert livestock officials because they believed the government would cull their poultry?including fighting cocks worth as much as $480 each. "We hoped it would just disappear," says villager Chanpen Rachsawang...
...first phase, which began in 1999 and ended in August 2002, was targeted at the long-term preservation and security of the library’s collections...
...Darfur is literally rooted in the soil. Most of the region's 6 million people are farmers and herders, who cling to the valleys where the soil is less sandy, or nomadic graziers, who migrate between the arid north and the south, which blooms green after the rains every August. Though most of Darfur's farmers are African and its nomads Arab, the two groups have mixed easily. Centuries of intermarriage have blurred the most obvious distinctions: nearly all Darfurians are black, Muslim and speak Arabic. Disputes between the two are traditionally settled using tribal laws as complex...