Word: visitors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...visitor to Hanoi University this month might be forgiven for thinking the tree-shaded campus was preparing for a riot. Moments after a school bell rings out, there is a grating sound as a tall, metal barricade is rolled into place. Dozens of police and uniformed security officials assume positions guarding the entrances to the campus, and students are searched for mobile phones and other forbidden objects as they enter classroom...
...with him, but recently told Bosher that she had gone back to India. "I asked him but it was long-winded,'' he says. "She used to wear a veil, but not the thing that covered her whole face, just over her hair." Bosher recalls the couple only once having visitors. "The woman [visitor] was wearing a veil," he says. Bosher says he never had any complaints about Haneef apart from a mix-up over a parking space when the doctor first arrived. "I never saw him unless he wanted something. He paid his rent through the Internet," he says...
...passable roads, SUVs, cell-phone service and hotels speaks of momentum and progress. India offers abundant opportunities to get rich quick. Indeed, the countless foreign businessmen and -women who come to India are worried more about cell connectivity in Delhi than malnourished children in Noida. I am a regular visitor to China and a keen follower of Chinese progress. One must realize that that country opened up its economy much earlier than India did. And China still has many more slogans than India has! Dukkipati Nageswara Rao, Hyderabad, India...
...city's conference hall. A short, slightly built man bounds out of a dark-tinted limousine and up the steps, heading to a tête-à-tête with Sudan's President, Lieut. General Omar Hassan al-Bashir. To the crowd of Sudanese gawking outside, the visitor needs no introduction. Bernard Kouchner is back on familiar turf...
...sanctions on Sudan, or to settle which foreign troops would be sent there, the tragedy in that region had clearly been given top priority by France, thanks in large part to its new Foreign Minister. In Khartoum, even Bashir - not known for his humor - appeared charmed by his French visitor. Like many African leaders, Bashir has known Kouchner for decades, since the Frenchman's days at MSF. In an anteroom on the top floor of Khartoum's conference center, Bashir joked that Kouchner had several times sneaked into Sudan illegally during the country's long civil war. To Kouchner, those...