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...numbers show the extent of the war on education by the Pakistani Taliban. At least 473 schools across Swat and Federally Administered Tribal Areas have been destroyed over the past two years. Militants recently blew up a 12-room state-run high school and health clinic for boys in Hangu district, a small area nestled on the border of North Waziristan and the North-West Frontier Province. And they routinely blow up girls' schools in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and North-West Frontier Province. Three have been destroyed in the past two weeks. (See pictures of suicide-bomb attacks...
...world, where it reeled in $300 million. That didn't sit well with some Chinese, including Guo Shu, executive president of Starlight International Media Group, an entertainment company based in Beijing. "We commit ourselves to be a media with a sense of national responsibility," she told the state-run People's Daily. "Now that foreigners can produce a popular movie out of the story Hua Mulan, why can't we Chinese present its own to the world...
...Credited with reforming India during his five years as Finance Minister from 1991 to 1996, rescuing the country from the brink of economic collapse by lowering taxes, devaluing the rupee, privatizing state-run industries and instituting foreign investments...
...Monday morning to voice their anger over plans to build an incinerator to deal with the rising amounts of trash produced by Guangzhou's Panyu district, whose 2.5 million residents are expected to generate 2,200 tons of garbage a day by next year, a local official told the state-run China Daily newspaper. A site for an incinerator to replace two overtaxed landfills was proposed in 2006, but residents say they weren't informed about the plans until this fall. In one survey cited by China Daily, 92% of residents thought the incinerator would harm their health...
...grounds. They memorialize the city's famed, infamous and all but forgotten in parklike environments studded with tombs so exquisitely imaginative that they resemble works of art. There's a certain macabre logic, then, to Le 104 (or the Centquatre), an ambitious multidisciplinary arts center that was once a state-run pompes funèbres - a municipal funeral hub from which hearses, coffins and corpses were dispatched to cemeteries...