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...precisely such deliberate actions that should be galvanizing nations and international organizations to protest and intervene. When there is a typhoon in Burma or an earthquake in China, the world knows what questions to ask. What can we do? How can we help? But when a calamity is preventable and unfolding systematically before our eyes, nations sit on their hands. The world, as W.H. Auden wrote in his beautiful poem Musée des Beaux Arts, "turns away quite leisurely from the disaster...
...when the realization finally dawned on Cameroonians, the response was explosive. Beginning with a taxi strike in late February, thousands took to the streets to protest not only fuel prices but also the spiraling cost of staple foods such as rice and wheat. Barricades burned across the country and gas stations and government offices were torched. At least 24 protestors were killed by government forces, and hundreds of others were arrested during the ensuing crackdown...
...look bad now, Vietnam's long-term economic outlook is good, says Tom Nguyen, head of global markets at Deutsche Bank in Ho Chi Minh City. Some think the government's ability to deal with public dissent swiftly and harshly lessens the threat that strikes will turn into violent protest or will encourage calls for political change. Vietnam remains a stable country of 85 million people with a young and educated workforce. "It is unreasonable for any of us investors to expect this development process not to have challenges," says Nguyen. "But some of the heartache has to fall...
...trade agreement with the U.S. But to many Koreans, it looked like the President was selling out to Washington, in the process endangering public safety as well as hurting Korea's agricultural industry. On June 1, an estimated 40,000 demonstrators clogged the main thoroughfares of downtown Seoul to protest the decision; police were forced to disperse the unruly crowds with water cannons. Lee was forced to retreat himself, effectively reimposing a ban on imports of U.S. beef from cattle more than 30 months old, which are more susceptible to mad cow disease...
...supposed to be a formal critique of Namjoo's work, whose sudden and immense popularity prompted the liberal Artists' House to seek explanations. But the crowd gives the two critics on stage no chance to speak, and less than an hour into the session both have walked off in protest...