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...Zhongdian and the surrounding region were officially renamed Shangri-La. Whether visitors are genuinely attracted by the area's claim to be the location of James Hilton's classic 1930s novel Lost Horizons, or whether they come (as they always have done) for the spectacular mountain scenery and ethnic Tibetan culture, isn't clear. But what is indisputable is the local tourism boom, facilitated by massive infrastructure projects-from a new airport five years ago to new highways today. What will visitors who make it to this once fabled and remote part of Yunnan province want when they get there...
...like the family of Victor R. Lu, the two wars have become bookends of tragedy, conflicts that upended their worlds forever. Xuong and his wife Nu lived in Saigon, and he worked as a skilled technician in a profitable machine shop. Like millions of other Vietnamese, the Lus are ethnic Chinese, and were residents of a part of Saigon known as Cholon, where many Vietnamese of Chinese descent had settled. Like Chinese diaspora the world over, the one in Saigon was tight knit, industrious and relatively prosperous. Even as the war in Vietnam intensified in the late '60s, Lu says...
...Georgia and Turkey to bring Caspian Sea oil to the West. The project, argued BankTrack, violates the Equator Principles in key areas, notably in regard to the protection of indigenous peoples. The ngo suggests the Turkish government may use the new pipeline as an excuse to crack down on ethnic Kurds living along its route. Last December, Banca Intesa withdrew from the project, but both Citigroup and ABN Amro reject BankTrack's criticisms and have stayed on. "BTC is a complex and challenging transaction, but we felt on balance that it did meet the Equator Principles," says Richard Burrett...
Students also brought up the social reality of race relations, defending the existence of ethnic organizations in order to promote awareness on campus...
Last night’s discussion, however, did not include much input from critics of ethnic organizations...