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...Like Ochilo, Kinyanjui, who is a Nairobi-based marketing manager, is careful whom he tells about his sexual orientation. When colleagues at a former job discovered he was gay, some threatened to quit and others began cleaning the phone every time he used it. "People become outcasts," he says. "Society doesn't want to have anything to do with you." Scholastica Mghallu, 28, a lesbian teacher in Kenya, says she looks forward to the day "when it will no longer be a crime to be gay. We need to uplift each other...
...Malaysia, meanwhile, police say they are attempting to trace as many as 200 more members of KMM terrorist cells. That number could be low if you believe Abdul Rahman, a former KMM foot soldier, who quit the organization two years ago after disagreeing with its plans to wage a violent campaign to install an Islamic government in Malaysia. Short, muscular and terrified of arrest, Abdul Rahman smokes constantly as he describes how he was recruited through a martial arts group and later sent for six months' paramilitary training in Thailand. "There were 45 in my group alone, and there were...
...President Hugo Chávez Frías reponded to the largest-ever protest against his government by appointing leftist Adina Bastidas to the post of Trade Minister, further alienating the business sector. An estimated 80,000 people marched through Caracas demanding Chávez moderate his policies or quit. Instead, pro-business Interior Minister Luis Miquilena resigned, jeopardizing party and parliamentary support for Chávez who also faces opposition from church leaders...
RESIGNED. TAKAO KOYAMA, 57, and MASAKUNI MURAKAMI, 68, members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (ldp) in the Japanese parliament's Upper House, from the ldp and as head of the ldp group in the House, respectively; in Tokyo. Koyama quit after being arrested on suspicion of taking $170,000 in bribes from an insurance foundation in return for comments he made in favor of the group's activities. Murakami stepped down to take responsibility for this latest in a series of scandals to plague Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's government...
...Those deep economic troubles are unlikely to disappear with Estrada, as Arroyo concedes. "Things are so bad now," she says. "Oh yes, they can still get worse." Still, Arroyo has had a shadow cabinet since she quit Estrada's cabinet in October, and says she has big ideas for plugging the Philippines into the global economy. She talks about "structural reforms" and "a level playing field" - the kind of hip, business jargon that never escaped Estrada's lips. "Things can get better under us," she insists...