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...Fueling the refugees' anger is the fear that Lapindo will walk away from its promises. Last September, PT Energi Mega Persada, a company controlling 50% of the Lapindo drilling project and connected to Bakrie, the Indonesian Cabinet minister, attempted to unload Lapindo for $2 to a company based on the island of Jersey but owned by Bakrie's family conglomerate. When Indonesian financial regulators blocked that sale, Energi Mega tried to sell half the beleaguered Lapindo to the Freehold Group, registered in the British Virgin Islands. That deal also collapsed amid controversy. The attempted corporate reshuffling raised fears among many...
...deposited in a 47-story hotel that sits on Pyongyang's Daedong River. It is one of two hotels in Pyongyang that foreigners stay in. The other one is on a central street, with plenty of pedestrian traffic outside and even some vehicular traffic. It's possible to walk out the front door, see people and try to talk to them. Not from our hotel. It's isolated and difficult to walk to or from. And that was the point. There hadn't been this many Americans on North Korean soil since the Korean War, and our hosts plainly didn...
...still the dominant figure in the intense cult of personality that is North Korea. His image is everywhere, most prominently on an overlook where a gigantic bronze statue stands in front of the Korean Revolution Museum. After we boarded the buses, a group of about 40 North Koreans walked up and made their way to the statue. We were just about to leave, but again there was a journalists' revolt. A few of us sprinted off the bus to get a better look at the scene unfolding before us, and once we went, the whole pack followed, as our minder...
...part, stresses the importance of forming relationships within the commnity beyond the project they advertise. Counselors meet their students in the afternoons at the project’s playground, and work with them for several hours at a nearby college. To round off the day, the counselors walk the children home, speaking to MHASP’s goals of expanding the volunteers’ duties pastjust teaching...
...People do it, but to dwell upon that is to miss the opportunity to be doing greater things,” Tompkins says. “I try to focus on how to change it so that when people walk out of the PBHA building, they’re thinking as more conscious beings...