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As punishment, four of the players were kicked off the national team and sent back to provincial clubs. The coaches spared Ma Lin, who is?not coincidentally?the world's best player, and Wang Hao, No. 3 in the world. (China didn't want to lose them in advance of...
Capital cities are magnets of prosperity to provincial folk across Asia, and Seoul is no exception. The metropolis' population now tops 10 million?one-fifth of the entire population of South Korea?and bureaucrats have pondered vainly for years how to keep Seoul from becoming ever more crowded and expensive...
Even if Afghan officials want to help hunt down terrorists, they are woefully underequipped. An Afghan official told TIME that the U.S. experimented with giving satellite phones to provincial security chiefs earlier this year. But the officials, who hadn't been paid in months, used them to run international-call...
Just hours earlier, U.S. forces made a similar blunder, killing six other children along with two adults, members of a village family in neighboring Paktia province. That raid was supposed to take out a powerful clergyman named Mullah Jalani, who was accused by the Pentagon of operating training camps for...
Even if Afghan officials want to help hunt down terrorists, they are woefully underequipped. An Afghan official told TIME that the U.S. experimented with giving satellite phones to provincial security chiefs earlier this year. But the officials, who hadn't been paid in months, used them to run international-call...