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Last April, Fakhra was napping in her mother's home on Napier Rd., the seedy red-light section of Karachi, the country's rough-and-tumble commercial hub. It was a great distance?in every way?from what she had hoped for when she married Bilal Khar, now 36, a former politician and scion of one of Pakistan's best-known families. Five days earlier, after enduring constant physical abuse by her husband during three years of marriage, she had returned home...
...Dongguan, another Guangdong industrial hub, there are more than 50,000 Taiwanese, and things there are pretty hairy. Mainland police confirm that eight of the 14 murders of Taiwanese on the mainland last year took place in Dongguan. But Hayes Lou, secretary-general of the Dongguan Taiwanese Businessmen's Association, estimates that 30 to 40 Taiwanese die in the city each year, including accident victims. A year ago, two Taiwanese brothers managing a plastics plant were murdered by a pair of migrant workers they had fired. The brothers were bludgeoned with metal pipes. "I went there and saw," Lou says...
...Here & There UNITED KINGDOM: Prince Charles is spearheading a campaign to make "the pub the hub" of community life in declining rural areas
...group--Tariq (Black Thought) Trotter, drummer Ahmir (?uestlove) Thompson, keyboardist Kamal Gray, bassist Leonard (Hub) Hubbard, vocal percussionists Kyle (Scratch) Jones and Rozell (Rahzel) Brown [not pictured] and Malik (Malik B.) Abdul-Bassit--is time tested. In various incarnations, they have been together since 1987. When you see ?uestlove with his big Afro behind the drum kit, you know you're going to get a good show...
...bourse's 450 active brokers are near bankruptcy. And most of them are no longer showing up at the office. The Calcutta Stock Exchange, India's third- largest and one of the most venerable in Asia, looks like some backwater bus depot, rather than the bustling hub it used to be. Hallways are darkened and quiet. Many of the brokers appear to be either asleep on a bench or playing solitaire on the exchange's computer terminals. Desolate bourse employees sit idle, spitting red betel-nut juice on the walls. "Everyone is just loitering about," says Vivek Mahajan, a broker...