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...like it is now where people get so wet. We just sprinkled them with drops of water, not whole basins full." Zheng Peng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the country's top political advisory body, told the official government news agency Xinhua that this year people ought to splash water in a symbolic manner, as was done "in the traditional way," when water-splashing was limited to the last day of the festival. In fact, the Dai do not refer to the New Year's holiday as the "water-splashing festival...
...called the "Great Firewall of China," authorities block access to overseas Web pages deemed objectionable and shutter domestic sites that repeatedly stray into restricted territory. Search engines are prevented from linking to sensitive content. Mainland media, which face a host of regulations that limit how they can report the news, are often forced to take down controversial stories that have been posted online. (See pictures of Chinese mourning the loss of Google...
...open fire on protesters on April 7, littering the streets around the presidential palace with bodies. Bakiyev declared that any attempt to capture and kill him would "drown Kyrgyzstan in blood." But the first signs that the ousted President was prepared to change his mind came at a news conference in his home village of Teyit Tuesday where he said he'll resign if the interim government guarantees his and his family's safety. He also proposed that Roza Otunbayeva, the head of the interim government, come to his southern home base for talks and guaranteed safety...
Zhanybek Bakiyev, who is now in charge of his brother's personal security force, reacted on Monday with the threat of civil war. "I think it would be wrong. It would be bloodshed, a civil war," he told Russia's RIA Novosti news agency. "If [the interim government's special forces] are willing to test their skills, we are ready to meet them to fight. But we are also ready for dialogue." (See a brief history of Kyrgyzstan...
...increase pressure on the government to make some concessions. But if he does decide to cause problems, his biggest weapon is not public sympathy - he has very little of that - but a very large amount of money, which he has a lot of tucked away somewhere." At his news conference Tuesday, Bakiyev outlined the conditions under which he would stand down. "I believe, first and foremost, if there is a guarantee that the roaming of these armed people ends in Kyrgyzstan, that this redistribution of property and this armed free-for-all stops," he said. "Secondly, if my personal security...