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For thousands of years, Palauan society was matrilineal, a tradition their ancestors are believed to have brought over from the Indonesian island of Java. Land, money, and titles passed through the female line; clan lands continue to be passed through titled women and first daughters today. The islands were part...
Dunham is aloft now - in star territory. He has a tour bus with a built-in workshop (for the puppets), a new house with a 200-lb. (90 kg) model F-14 Tomcat in the atrium, a couple of homebuilt helicopters, a writing team and even tabloidesque buzz about his...
Disaster-management and human-rights minister Mahinda Samarasinghe revealed that the three doctors - T. Varatharajah, T. Sathyamurthi and V. Shanmugarajah - had been detained by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and are being investigated for suspicion of working with the Tigers. The three doctors remained in the shrinking combat zone during...
The 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre comes at a time when Hong Kong's own democracy movement feels threatened. Twelve years after its return to China, the city operates semiautonomously, enjoying a range of rights, but beholden, ultimately, to Beijing. Under a policy called "one country, two systems...
It is a delicate balance, one that pro-democracy advocates worry is tipping toward Beijing. Last year the Chinese government postponed direct elections in the territory, bumping the date from 2012 to 2017 for the chief executive and to 2020 for the legislature. The move outraged veteran campaigners like Martin...