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...SURRENDERED. 172 ETHNIC HMONG, who have lived on the run from Laotian troops for the past 30 years; to government authorities; in Xieng Khouang province, Laos. Recruited to fight alongside the CIA during the Vietnam War, the Hmong fled into the jungles or across the border into Thailand to escape persecution by the country's Communist regime when the war ended. Saturday's peaceful surrender of women, children and the elderly, mediated in part by U.S. Embassy officials in Vientiane, is expected to be followed by those of thousands more, possibly including Hmong commander Moua Toua Ther?one of Laos...
...biggest danger is that in the process, the radicals will succeed in igniting simmering ethnic and religious tensions-and mirror the divisions already apparent outside the university walls. Sectarian groups were barred from running for student-union elections earlier this year, but many simply set up parallel "committees" that carry greater clout than the elected unions. At Mustansiriya University, there are two "committees" representing Shi'ites-radical cleric al-Sadr is particularly popular-and a third is backed by Sunni students. All three routinely celebrate religious events on campus, plaster walls with posters depicting their respective religious leaders and conduct...
...TOOK OFFICE. VINCENT CHENG, 56, the first ethnic Chinese Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Asia-Pacific arm of HSBC Group, the world's second-largest bank by assets and a symbol of British colonial power; after being named to the position last December; in Hong Kong. Cheng, who grew up in a working-class tenement and suffered from polio as a child, embraced social activism in the early 1970s (he was once arrested while protesting the demolition of a squatter camp) before joining the bank in 1978 and rising rapidly through the ranks. On reporting...
...CLOSED. THAM KRABOK CAMP, home to ethnic Hmong refugees from neighboring Laos since 1992; following an agreement by the U.S. to accept most of its remaining 5,000 residents under a refugee resettlement deal; in Tham Krabok, Thailand. Located 130 km north of Bangkok on the grounds of a Buddhist temple, the camp once housed as many as 20,000 people. Its closure marks the end of a nearly three-decade-long project to resettle more than 300,000 Hmong, who were enlisted by the U.S. to fight communists in Laos and were consequently persecuted by the ruling regime...
...really about beach clothes--it's about beach dressing now," says Stefani Greenfield, owner of Scoop, a trendy specialty store with outposts in Manhattan, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. "It's all about this ethnic-inspired, nouveau-bohemian look. Think Mykonos or Santorini with those colors, coral and turquoise...