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...local farmers may be poor, but they have the same needs and desires as middle-class urbanites, and Hon's business is growing. He sells hundreds of thousands of soap and shampoo packets a month, enough to earn about $125 - five times his previous monthly salary as a junior Communist Party official. "It's still a hard life, but it's getting better," Hon says. "Now I have enough to pay my daughter's school fees. Soon I'll have saved enough to buy a bigger boat, so I can sell to more villages." Hon's customers may not know...
Pope John Paul II is best remembered as a peacemaker and defender of the underprivileged [April 11]. His experience of deprivation and tyranny during the Nazi and communist eras made him understand his important role. He cherished dialogue with people from different religions, and that helped promote understanding among nations and religious groups. He was a Pope who never hesitated to visit and reach out to Third World countries...
Currency markets went into a brief spin last week when the website for the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily carried an erroneous story stating that China would soon revalue its currency, the yuan. China's central bank quickly dashed the expectation, saying it has no immediate plans to change the yuan's peg to the U.S. dollar. But the scare was enough to prompt all sorts of questions on the Chinese currency. We oblige with the answers...
...administration is wary of Putin and his commitment to Democratic reform. A senior member of Bush's foreign policy team said: "You never know with Putin, it's one step forward and then two steps back." Goose-stepping soldiers, a hammer-and-sickle flag and other symbols of the communist era during the victory parade suggested their nervousness was genuine...
...administration of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would prefer his fellow citizens to describe him as a vertically challenged, well-nourished supporter of liberal causes--and not as a short, fat communist. In an 87-page document drawn up by the Special Ministry for Human Rights and distributed to members of Congress, police chiefs, newspaper editors and other opinion leaders, the Lula administration lists 96 terms it wants to hear less of. Many are obvious: Don't call the physically handicapped cripples or the mentally handicapped mongoloids, and when describing Afro-Brazilians, steer clear of the Portuguese...