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...child up the pitch-black stairs to the clinic. As usual, the electricity is out. She feels her way along the lightless hall until they reach the office, a dim, dingy room with a desk, a sink, a scale and an ancient examination table covered by a dusty black cloth. Everything in the once fine clinic was looted or wrecked a year...
...Later that morning, Ishak's 20-year-old daughter covers him with a pink print cloth, which quickly turns crimson. The womenfolk then gather around the body and chant the Islamic prayer for the dead. The victim's mother and his 15-year-old son watch while his wife, Ainal Mardiah, sobs quietly. "I can't go home again, I'm very scared," she says over and over...
...tribute honorees received a glass plaque and a kente cloth, which is a colorfully striped traditional African garment worn around the neck...
Name A Japanese corporate colossus, and chances are it started as a family firm--Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Toyota, Kikkoman. Hundreds of millions of Indians garb themselves daily in cloth made by the Ambanis or Wadias. Residents of Hong Kong can barely avoid contributing to the coffers of billionaire Li Ka-shing and his sons, who control office towers, supermarkets, electronics outlets and telephone companies. Business in Asia is a family affair, and the most accurate picture of an Asian economy remains a diagram of an extended family tree connecting clans that make things to those that finance them, with dotted lines...
...been kidnapped for ransom; journalists have been tortured and murdered; and one of the nation's pre-eminent intellectuals, Humayun Azad, was almost killed in February by a gang of knife-wielding assailants. But the wake-up call for many Bangladeshis came last week, when the bodies of two cloth merchants were found beheaded and mutilated in a forest outside Dhaka. Stunned by the discovery, many traders in the city closed their shops or held rallies to highlight the deepening sense of insecurity in the country's business community. "I'm just asking the government to allow...