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...these issues of getting Osama bin Laden, shutting down the al-Qaeda network, making sure the homeland is secure, are huge dominating issues. But Americans are providing 80% of the humanitarian aid [in Afghanistan], they hosted the first reconstruction conference, they've been extremely helpful in making sure the Northern Alliance agreed there had to be a broadly based regime...
...This morning, she was up before she could get her customary seven hours of sleep and out the MalacaNang Palace door for this trip, a tour of isolated and poor villages in the northern province of Abra. By distributing food and medicine, land titles and millions of pesos' worth of funds intended for agricultural modernization programs, she has brought government into the mountains, she says, along with the spirit of EDSA II, the second People Power revolution that swept her into office 12 long months...
...Manh represents a new generation of leadership for Vietnam: his career was forged not in the jungles of war but in communist training schools. His parents, Manh says, were named Nong Van Lai and Hoang Thi Nhi, ethnic Tay farmers in the remote northern province of Bac Can, who both died when he was young. The orphaned Manh soon found a new family in the Communist Party, which he joined at 22. The war between the north and the U.S.-backed south was in full swing, but Manh was sent to school rather than to battle, studying Russian in Hanoi...
...least four glossy photo books are devoted to Yading's claim to Shangri-la, but several authors insist it can be found in Yunnan's Deqin prefecture. To get there fly to Zhongdian, some 170 km away. Nobody would mistake this northern town, with its neocommunist concrete structures and rows of karaoke bars, for a terrestrial paradise, but nearby is the stunning Songzanlin Monastery, which could as easily have sprung from Hilton's imagination as that of a Tibetan architect. And Deqin?especially the majestic, glacier-draped Mount Kagbo, Yunnan's highest peak at 6,740 m?lives...
...NORTHERN IRELAND Sectarian Madness A row between two women outside a primary school in the divided Ardoyne area of north Belfast degenerated into two nights of rioting involving hundreds of opposed nationalists and loyalists. Police said 82 officers were injured and several vehicles set alight. A 20-year-old Catholic man was shot dead by a loyalist group that was also involved in last week's rioting...