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...Jerome Cohen, an expert at Chinese law at New York University who is advising the family. Xie, whose detention was only made public last week, has been allowed a visit from his wife and from U.S. consulate officials. No specific accusations have yet been brought against him. ATTACKED. BANGLADESH, including the capital Dhaka and 63 of the country's 64 districts; with more than 400 coordinated bombings on Aug. 17. The small homemade devices, which were detonated almost simultaneously, targeted government offices, courts, and press clubs, resulting in two deaths and over 200 injuries. An Islamic extremist group called Jamatul...
...export manager for the Hangzhou Silk and Garment Import Export Corp. in Hangzhou, says her profit margins are so thin already that she can't afford to lower prices to offset the 2.1% difference in currency values. "We expect contracts that would have gone to us will switch to Bangladesh and Indonesia," Yu says...
...this is a diversion from CNOOC's previous strategy of bringing liquefied natural gas back to China and shipping it into booming markets on the coast and inland. After all, most of the gas Unocal owns in Asia is already under contract in countries like Thailand and Bangladesh, so it can't be exported back for use in China. Fu: This is in no way a diversion. There is potential for gas in the undeveloped properties Unocal has in Indonesia, for example. Second, the other gas businesses there are good assets and we would continue to run them...
...willing to accept only gradual change. Guerrilla wars in Central America raged unchecked, and the so-called peace process in the Middle East made no discernible headway. Nature joined politics in contributing to human misery as earthquakes in Mexico City, a volcano eruption in Colombia and a cyclone in Bangladesh claimed tens of thousands of victims. In the U.S., Reagan became the first President to confer the full powers of his office voluntarily on his Vice President, George Bush, though only for eight hours, while surgeons removed a cancerous growth from Reagan's colon. The President recovered quickly and apparently...
From the beginning, Dallaire had difficulty getting the support he thought necessary for his mission. Belgium, Bangladesh, and other nations sent troops, but not in the numbers he had requested...