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much shorter distances from Albania to southeast Italy or from Morocco to Spain. But the would-be immigrants choose it because it offers the steadiest flow of outgoing boats. As the Somalis approach the edge of Kufra, a swarm of Libyans comes to greet them. "Tripoli! Tripoli! Benghazi!" the local men bark. "Where do you want to go? We have food. Do you want a place to stay?" Abdi Salan has little choice, agreeing to spend $150 for a hot meal, two nights' lodging and a jeep ride north to Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city. The Kufra smugglers convince...
...festival left members of the audience stunned, with powerful works including Anonymously Yours, an exploration of the sex-trafficking business in southeast Asia, and The Global Banquet: Politics of Food, a look at the growing threat that corporate globalization represents for small farmers...
...dismay of health experts, diabetes is becoming a global problem. In the next couple of decades, the prevalence of diabetes is expected to triple in Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and Southeast Asia, to double in the western Pacific and to nearly double in Europe. With an estimated 33 million cases, India has the most people with diabetes; China has 23 million...
...third most powerful man in the Communist Party of China, and he has a strong record of deal-brokering, from setting up free-trade zones to implementing a multilateral deal with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations to fight illegal immigration, drug trafficking and terrorism. In the United States, the Chinese premier will likely discuss recent American trade sanctions on Chinese textiles with President Bush, dine with Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and offer an address at Harvard Business School...
...East Asian studies and its emphasis on Asians in East Asia because it rarely includes the historical and contemporary experiences of people of Asian heritages in the United States. While classes on Vietnam and parts of South Asia exist, few even acknowledge Filipinos, Cambodians, Laotians, Hmong and other Southeast Asian ethnicities—whether in Asia or in America...