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...year anniversary of the Round Table talks serves as cause for reflection on the events of the past two decades in Poland and the Central European region as a whole. Even with the advantage of historical hindsight, the revolution of 1989 is just as impressive—if not more so—than it was 20 years ago. Despite the numerous challenges that Poland has faced in the past two decades, it has undergone an amazing transition. Since 1989, it has joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, earned full membership in the European Union, and built a successful democracy...
This year isn't getting off to a much better start. On Thursday, the government announced a severe drought emergency across eight central provinces. The dry conditions have hit an important grain-growing region south and west of Beijing at a time when the country is struggling to keep unemployment in check. (See pictures of Olympic highs and lows in Beijing...
...government has budgeted nearly $60 million in relief aid for the drought, but that may not be enough to help the millions of unemployed migrant workers returning home to the region in coming months. An estimated 20 million of the country's 130 million migrant laborers have been thrown out of work due to the global economic crisis. A lack of buying overseas has led to factory closures and layoffs in China's coastal manufacturing regions, and many people are heading back to their homes in the interior. Most came from farming regions, and local governments had hoped that agriculture...
Formed by Max Collins, Jon Siebels, and Tony Fagenson in 1995, Eve 6 disbanded in 2004 after being dropped by their record label, RCA Corporation. The band’s latest tour, launched two years since their 2007 reunion, is scheduled to stop at several other schools in the region, including SUNY Binghamton and the University of Connecticut...
...hour's drive from Shaoshan in Ningxiang county. Liu's memorial is quiet and forested. Once you pass through the entry gates there are no touts or trinket stands, and noticeably fewer visitors. Liu was known as a practical, down-to-earth official. During an inspection tour of the region in 1961, he learned of the suffering of farmers under the Great Leap Forward, and recommended more pragmatic economic policies. That earned him the enmity of Mao, whose followers persecuted Liu during the Cultural Revolution. Denied medicine for conditions including diabetes, he died in a prison cell...