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Officials from Pacific Lumber did not return repeated requests for comment...
...With Berlusconi's return to power last month, and Fini's own protégé, Gianni Alemanno sweeping to victory in the race for Rome Mayor, Fini was sworn in last week at the helm of the Italian Parliament, hoping his extremist past was definitively behind him. But now, Fini is again on the spot over fascism, a victim of his own zeal to defend Israel...
...Dalai Lama's stated aim is for Beijing to grant some kind of limited autonomy to Tibet. But achieving that aim - which would allow the 73-year-old to return home after nearly 50 years in exile - will take a tectonic shift in positions on both sides. One consistent condition made by negotiators for the Dalai Lama's Dharamsala-based government in exile, for example, has been that the new autonomous region would include so-called "greater" Tibet, that is, all the traditionally ethnic-Tibetan areas now parts of the provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai. In total, that...
From the era of gunboat diplomacy to today's scan-and-go turnstiles, Hong Kong has always offered foreigners the most convenient passage to the Chinese mainland. Since Hong Kong's return to China from Britain in 1997, entry to the mainland has become even easier and faster-visas are processed with great speed and little hassle, making entry points into Shenzhen, the booming megalopolis adjacent to Hong Kong, among the busiest in the world. But all this has been upset in recent weeks: the Chinese government has mysteriously stopped issuing multiple-entry visas-an essential tool for Hong Kong...
...thousands, of other foreign businessmen living in Hong Kong. Instead, all that longstanding China travelers like Weckherlin are being granted are visas with paltry two-day durations and permits to visit only one city or province at a time. Even then, applicants are being forced to proffer both return tickets and hotel vouchers, a new requirement that makes planning for contingencies or traveling on the fly virtually impossible. Hong Kong's many foreign Chambers of Commerce have lodged complaints with the Chinese Foreign Ministry office in the city, but no clear explanation has yet to be given for the restrictions...