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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rented for 10 years, after which the family can renew for another decade, or exhume the remains and yield the plot to someone else. Some residents have sent bodies abroad to bury, particularly in the U.S. and Canada, or looked across the border to China, but the journey to visit such graves can be taxing for older relatives. Jockeying for burial space in Hong Kong has become so intense that last year 18 cemetery supervisors were arrested for allegedly accepting bribes in order to exhume remains before they had fully decomposed. (See a map of population density in Chinese cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hong Kong, Even the Dead Wait in Line | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...Today, the vast majority of Americans travel by either car or airplane, depending on the distance of their journey. This has contributed to our debilitating dependence on foreign oil and has made our transportation system lag behind others in the developed world, as countries like South Korea, France, Taiwan, and Spain have invested heavily in relatively efficient, fast, and safe high-speed trains that connect major metropolitan areas. Even China, the world’s largest developing economy, is making strides in this area—one can now take a high-speed bullet train from Pudong airport to downtown...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Working on the Railroad | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

...pictures retracing Qasab's journey from Pakistan to Mumbai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mumbai Attacks Trial Offers Rare Glimpse into Indian Courts | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

...siege culminated in a terrifying shootout that the government says killed 102, including Aziz's brother and son. Aziz was arrested as he tried to escape dressed in a burqa, the full body veil favored by female students of the conservative seminary. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey from Pakistan to Mumbai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Pakistan's Red Mosque, a Return of Islamic Militancy | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...step on the streets of Mexico City. After flying by helicopter into a key military base, he stuck within a square mile of the presidential palace and was out of the country on Friday after less than 20 hours. (See behind the scenes pictures from President Obama's European journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama in Mexico: No Hero's Welcome | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

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