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In July, relations reached a new nadir when P.N.G.'s chief mines inspector ordered all construction on the Ramu NiCo sites to be shut down because of significant health-and-safety concerns. Work ceased for a month before "noticeable progress" by Ramu NiCo convinced the government to allow construction to...
Later I visit the Rickshaw and meet its affable owner Liu Lianghua. The tale he tells is like a caricature of the Chinese immigrant story. His in-laws moved to P.N.G. over a decade ago because they had some family who had settled there previously. Liu eventually followed with his...
Give 'Em Hell, Hillary Joe Klein has made a strong case for why Hillary Clinton should be President [Nov. 16]. Unfortunately, as Secretary of State serving an inexperienced President, she is hampered by Barack Obama's fantasy foreign policy. During the campaign, Clinton spelled out over and over the harsh...
Indeed, battles over how to carve up Iraq's oil revenues between the country's bitterly divided ethnic groups have stopped parliament from signing a national hydrocarbon law originally drafted in 2006. After previously insisting that they would not do business in Iraq without a legal framework governing central issues...
In a country with a low-hanging glass ceiling, the appearance of so many junior female politicians on the national stage has inevitably generated controversy. Besides Fukuda and Okamoto, members of a freshman class of 26 female DPJ lawmakers include Kayoko Isogai, a temp worker who was unemployed when she...