Word: ruralization
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...when he buried his two-year-old son on Dec. 25. The boy had drowned two days before in a fishpond near their home in northern Vietnam's Thai Binh province, and Viet was undone by the death. At the funeral the family served raw duck blood and porridge?rural comfort food. Although they had heard that the avian influenza that swept Southeast Asia last year had returned, they thought the disease was confined to the south. The day after the funeral, Viet fell sick with flulike symptoms. He was hospitalized on Dec. 31, and tested negative for the H5N1...
...These efforts haven't come cheap: the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development estimates the economic loss of all that poultry at just under 0.5% of GDP, or $195 million. Nguyen Vau Be and his family in rural Long An province raised 100 ducks to pay for their holiday celebrations and food this year, but when the birds became sick recently, they were forced to kill them. "There's no Tet for us this year," says wife Truong Thi Dua, watching as the live ducks are tossed onto a large bonfire. The family is being compensated with a total...
...momentum is building for stricter laws because police officers across rural America are fed up with the time, money and danger involved in dismantling meth labs hidden in remote farms and forests. Originally popular with motorcycle gangs and long-haul truckers, the drug--which is smoked, snorted or injected--can be cooked up in a few hours from a combination of over-the-counter drugs, rubbing alcohol, fertilizers and other chemicals with recipes found on the Internet. Although an estimated three-quarters of the meth used in the U.S. is smuggled in by Mexican gangs, more than 8,500 domestic...
...those wishing to see real political reform, the early signs are hardly encouraging. Hu, for example, has strengthened a secretive institution that Zhao had tried to abolish. From the national level all the way down to the smallest rural township, the Party maintains "politics and law committees" to coordinate law enforcement and instruct judges on court decisions. Only a month after taking charge of the Party in 2002, Hu inserted the head of China's national police force, Zhou Yongkang, as vice chairman of the Central Commission of Political Science and Law?the country's highest-level politics...
...Party Members." All 68 million rank-and-file Party members will spend the next 18 months "finding problems in their thought, work and behavior" and writing self-criticisms, according to the People's Daily. TV news, meanwhile, offers nightly profiles of model cadres like Zhou Guozhi, a peasant in rural Hubei province who lived in a wooden shack, hauled rocks on his back to build a bridge to his village, and was so modest that he scratched his name off a tablet listing the bridge's builders. Hu may be hoping that by strengthening the Party he will etch...