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...small city of Puri sits in the state of Orissa, an eight-hour train ride down the coast from Kolkata. For the past two months Orissa has been in the papers for arson, intimidation, murder, and forced conversion of its Christian population with the tacit support of the Hinduist state government. This fact has no bearing on my experience of the place, in fact it took part in a very different part of the state. It is provided solely as the context every up-on-the-news Indian might have.Puri is a both a beach town, and a temple town...
...blankets, which are strewn over bridges and hung on public walls as part of their campaign of terrorism. Known as narco mantas (capes), many messages in recent months have accused the administration of President Felipe Calderón of working with the Sinaloa cartel based on Mexico's Pacific Coast. Monterrey is home to the rival Gulf cartel, which is believed to be behind many of these messages...
...setting sail in dangerous weather, according to maritime-industry regulators. In the Philippines, for example, ferry captains are required to submit a document called the Master Oath of Safety Departure (MOSD) - testifying that the vessel meets all requirements and disclosing the number of passengers on board - to the coast guard before every sailing. But "the shipping industry wants to earn income," says Lieutenant Garydele Gimotea, spokesman for the Philippine Coast Guard. Overloading is commonplace, and documents are frequently falsified, he says. "What they sometimes submit is not really the actual count of the number of passengers," Gimotea says...
...Inadequate regulation and oversight makes it difficult to force changes on the industry. In the Philippines, a country of about 25,000 coastal barangays, or villages, it's impossible to monitor the comings and goings of every vessel. The coast guard's staff of about 5,000 employees is insufficient to patrol the country's 35,000 km (21,747 miles) of coastline. In a Dec. 14 accident, when the MB Mae Jan, bound for the town of Aparri, capsized, killing 45, there was no coast-guard detachment present in the area, so there was no one to review...
...that the problem of piracy off Somalia's coast that has lately had the country back in the headlines. Piracy is driven by poverty, and the frustration at seeing the world's fishing fleets plunder your waters, while the global economy, in the form of heavily laden container ships transiting the Suez Canal, quite literally pass you by. Killing pirates, as an international armada now gathering off Somalia aims to do, doesn't address that. It might briefly deter them, but it doesn't address the root cause of the problem...