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When soldiers marched into her village in Shan state and took away her mother and father, Nang Nang was 4 years old?too young to understand that her parents had been dragooned as military porters, who are routinely worked to death or executed by their captors. But later, when the locals retrieved her parents' bodies from the forest, she was old enough to realize they were dead, and that Burmese soldiers had killed them. Nang Nang is 6 now. "She's still heartbroken," says her teacher, Hku Hseng Lu. "She cries a lot. Sometimes she gets angry and talks about...
...unable to get the love of a girl or how much it hurt to lose her), and the boy band disappeared before I could figure it all out. But the days accompanied by their songs, which now seem totally cheesy to me, are just as fresh as yesterday. Chi-shan Lee Taipei...
...unable to get the love of a girl or how much it hurt to lose her), and the boy band disappeared before I could figure it all out. But the days accompanied by their songs, which now seem totally cheesy to me, are just as fresh as yesterday. Chi-Shan Lee Taipei India's War on AIDS You described India's growing AIDS crisis [June 6]. But the AIDS epidemic is a global problem that demands a unified, worldwide solution. It is not only the responsibility of nations where AIDS is most prevalent or of philanthropists like Bill and Melinda...
...first time that alleged abuses by the junta?among them systematic rape and forced labor?have been so comprehensively documented and analyzed. Taken as a whole, claims Horton, the litany of atrocities may add up to ethnic cleansing of Burma's minorities like the Karen, the Karrenni and the Shan. "What's taking place in Burma is not mass killing like in Rwanda," he told TIME. "It's a slow, indirect form of destruction...
...Shan is outspoken about business conditions in China. In editorials in the Asian Wall Street Journal, he wrote that China needs more market reform to stamp out corruption, which he called "a serious threat to China's body politic," and warned that willy-nilly lending by Chinese banks will wallop the economy. "I see a market filled with pitfalls," he says. "China is deceptive. Growth doesn't necessarily translate into profit." During a February luncheon in Hong Kong, Shan shocked the crowd by challenging Nobel-prizewinning economist Amartya Sen for praising Mao's "barefoot doctor" program as a sound...