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...Xiantang's residents claim officials cheated them by dealing land rights to their fields to property developers without adequately compensating farmers. "They sold our land and made money off it," says one resident, "but they gave us nothing." More than 2,000 villagers signed a petition accusing top local official Lai Zhenchang of masterminding the scheme. Officials used the proceeds to refurbish their homes and send their children to study overseas, villagers say; farmers were offered $8 a month each in compensation. (The Foshan city government, which has supervisory authority over Xiantang, did not respond to requests for comment...
...Similar protests are commonplace in China. A study last year of more than 3,000 corruption cases found that half were connected to land and development projects, according to Minxin Pei, the director of the China program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He adds that the government has uncovered more than 1 million cases of illegal land acquisition between 1999 and 2005. "It pops up in sectors where the government holds huge sway," Pei says. "These are the least reformed, least competitive areas. The government owns the land; the government controls bank credit. This is where corruption tends...
...thing, this war is tragic but not inherently dramatic. The useful clichés of old war films--capturing a hill from the bad guys, getting an enemy uniform in gun sight, wooing a pretty maiden in a distant land--don't apply to a conflict on city streets, with the enemy in mufti and the local women off-limits. For another, the number of soldiers at risk in Iraq is, compared with past conflicts, relatively small--a niche market, if you will, like the audience that has paid to see Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah (with Tommy...
...journalists to report on the heated competition among nations for investment. Alex Perry and Zoe Eisenstein file from Africa on the disparate development of Mauritius and Angola. In Denmark, Justin Fox analyzes the country's success amid high tax rates. Asia hand Kathleen Kingsbury examines China's push to land R&D labs. Latin America expert Tim Padgett assesses the surprising economic strength of Argentina, Brazil and Chile. And business writer Barbara Kiviat explains the significance of the WEF's country rankings. We are also launching on TIME.com an amazing Global Business section--a hub for up-to-the-minute...
...recent Saturday afternoon, on a desert road outside Los Angeles, a Land Rover ran into a Chevy Tahoe. Happily, nobody was hurt. That's because no one was in either...