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...organized collectors who slip into the country across unmarked borders and ship out containers full of historic pieces, which are highly prized on the international market. In December last year, p.n.g. police were tipped off about two small boxes left at a DHL courier's office in the sleepy port town of Wewak, near the mouth of the Sepik. Both were to be shipped to private addresses in Germany and appeared to have been given security checks by the shipping agent. But when detectives carefully opened the lids and parted the plastic bags filled with sawdust, they found two skulls...
...brought them here. I just helped them mail them," he says. The skulls were not genuine but imitations, he insists, so there could be no loss of cultural heritage and no crime committed. "There are almost no old ones left," he says. "You may see one only in the Port Moresby museum. These are copies. Necrophiles buy them...
...Many of Vanuatu's 83 islands are hard to reach and harder to get around, so it was a piece of astonishing luck that Teouma is only a short drive from Vanuatu's capital, Port Vila. It was another stroke of luck that the cemetery was discovered at all. After a bulldozer collecting soil for a prawn farm in 2003 turned up some pottery, the driver thought one of the shards pretty and took it home, where he showed his new curio to a friend. Thankfully for anyone interested in learning when and how the South Pacific was first settled...
...Hong Kong must adjust to the fact that it is not the only capitalist city or financial center in China, is not the biggest port, is no longer a manufacturing hub or a unique political anomaly in a postimperial age. Can Hong Kong transform itself again, as it did in the 1950s when it became more than a China gateway by turning itself into a manufacturing powerhouse? Or is it destined to become like Rio de Janeiro? Fifty years ago, the Brazilian city was the priciest place on the planet. But it lost its bearings when the bureaucracy moved...
...British authorities were also pursuing a British-born Pakistani who entered England through a Channel port two weeks before the blasts, despite being on a security watch list as a suspected al-Qaeda member. London police said there was nothing yet to link him to the plot, but a Pakistani official told Time that two British investigators traveled to Islamabad last week to check on his contacts and whether he went to the frontier region where Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, may be hiding. Working with Britain and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. froze bank accounts...