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Calmer celebrations might bring back to memory the real reason for all the splashing: the promise of rain. Chinese scholars often trace the Songkran festival back to India. Classic Hindu texts describe water-splashing as a means of washing away sin on the occasion of the New Year, when deities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drought Throws Cold Water on Yunnan's Water Festival | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

Despite the belligerent words, Paul Quinn-Judge, the International Crisis Group's director in Central Asia and a former Moscow bureau chief for TIME, says a civil war between the north and south of the country is very unlikely, even if Bakiyev has resources at his disposal to resist the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kyrgyzstan, Bakiyev Now Willing to Step Down | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

The ousted President's brother admitted on Monday that he had ordered snipers to shoot at armed rioters near the presidential palace last week - a confession unlikely to win the family popularity points. "I ordered my men to open fire only on those who carried weapons. My conscience is clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Kyrgyzstan, Bakiyev Now Willing to Step Down | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

Germany has tough privacy laws, a response to the state surveillance systems that were put in place first by the Nazis and then by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. Under the German constitution, the state now has a special responsibility to protect the privacy of its citizens. Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Under Attack in Germany Over Privacy | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

But Facebook, the world's biggest social-networking site with more than 400 million users, defends its privacy controls. "The proposed new language in the Privacy Policy does not relate to the wholesale sharing of user data for commercial purposes as the minister fears," the company said in a statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Under Attack in Germany Over Privacy | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

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