Word: hans
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Throughout the journey, I was struck by the contrast between the beauty of the landscape and the ugliness of the people. I saw the hatred of the Han Chinese toward the Muslim minorities in western Gansu province. I saw a man being castrated and his house ransacked by a village family-planning brigade, because his wife had just given birth to a second child. Years of political oppression had left the Chinese people hostile and suspicious of outsiders. When I passed through remote villages, peasants would take me for a spy or a hooligan and report me to the police...
...somewhat expensive way to keep an economy crippled. For the most part, Asia's governments and corporate leaders are pinning their hopes on optimistic forecasts of a mild U.S. recovery in the fourth quarter of this year. "We are in a pretty rocky bottom right now," says Han Yung Jung, an economist at the Korea Institute of Finance, an organization funded by big banking interests. How soon things get better "depends on how soon the U.S. economy gets its act together...
...they finished, the family matriarch gave everybody, including her teenage grandkids, small tablets of rat poison: if the police were to grab them, they would commit collective suicide. They then marched into a United Nations office to demand sanctuary. "They preferred death to being taken back," says Moon Guk Han, the businessman who helped them...
...area in 1999, according to a clandestine survey carried out by Good Friends. The lucky ones live with relatives or find their way to an underground missionary shelter. The others are often at the mercy of unscrupulous farmers and factory owners who give them jobs but pay a pittance. Han Dong Jun and his older brother Dong Shik raise herbs and medicinal plants on a patch of cleared forest land for a Chinese farmer in a remote stretch of mountainside frontier. They say he won't pay them until the the crop is ready or commit to how much...
...country by far, live in urban enclaves with extensive Turkish networks of shops, restaurants, mosques and professional services. They can even watch Turkish TV on more than a dozen channels available via cable or satellite. "You just don't need to know any German to get along," says Hanim Han, 15, who lives in Duisburg's district of Marxloh, known locally as Little Istanbul...