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Locals say the money made by the mines flows mainly to investors located in China's wealthy coastal cities. It certainly isn't winding up in the pockets of workers. An average miner makes $420 a month. That's not a bad wage for China, but the work is tough...
A few months ago I passed through the central Taiwan city of Taichung and had dinner with its refreshingly down-to-earth Mayor Jason Hu, a former Foreign Minister. Later that Saturday night, Hu, sans entourage, and I took an impromptu walk in a park in a gentrified neighborhood bustling...
Woody Mosby, a 59-year-old semi-retired architect, got to know the concrete corridor between Dunkin' Donuts and tracks 1 & 2 of Philadelphia's Suburban train station really well this Easter weekend. Mosby was registering voters on behalf of Barack Obama, and by his count he'd gotten more...
Maliki's government targeted Basra because it could. Unlike many other southern cities where fighting has escalated in recent weeks, Maliki has built an independent power base among the security forces there. But Tuesday's sweep of Basra could turn sour in other southern cities where the central government's...
On that occasion the independent Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, traveling with McCain as part of a congressional delegation, was quick to intervene. "I'm sorry; the Iranians are training the extremists, not al-Qaeda," said McCain, after Lieberman whispered a correction. In Downing Street, Lieberman also flanked the veteran Senator...