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...Discrepancies between national immigration policy and local reality are acknowledged even by P.N.G.'s Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Assistant secretary Nadile bluntly tells me she suspects that most Chinese who entered the country have done so without the necessary visas and work permits. Today, in major cities across P.N.G., the vast majority of so-called kai bars, or fast-food restaurants, are run by recent Chinese immigrants, as are nearly all the grocery stores. But few Chinese have the correct papers to run such businesses. I ask Nadile if she can tell me of a place nearby that...
...Still, for all the controversy surrounding the influx of Chinese money in Africa, Latin America and Asia, the truth is that the vast majority of Chinese working abroad aren't going to go home rich. Driving up to the Ramu mine site, I stopped the car at an incongruous sight: against a backdrop of rain forest, a lone Chinese man perched on a piece of cardboard overseeing a crew of local workers struggling in the sun to sheath a pipeline with insulation tape. There was a feudal tinge to the scene, but the life of Chen Ming, the Sichuan-born...
...strong influence on my life beyond high school. In 2005, as a college graduate and part of the Alumni Volunteer Corps, I returned to the school to donate a year, doing student teaching, coaching and offering help where needed. Even though I have moved on to Chicago for stronger work opportunities, I maintain contact with numerous U of D alums, and I cherish what the school has done for me as a man and as a contributing member of society. Thank you for recognizing such a powerful institution. Justin Westlund, CHICAGO...
...population is infected with HIV and only 3% graduate from high school. Though he grew up before AIDS, bad health was rife - his father, a policeman, died when he was 3. His mother was a domestic servant for a white family and Zuma dropped out of school to work on his uncle's farm and as a kitchen...
Zuma, on the other hand, was a low-ranking guerrilla in the ANC's armed wing who rose to the leadership of its ruthless intelligence unit. He plotted bomb attacks and assassinations and ordered the killing of suspected traitors. There was nothing intellectual about such work. In an interview with TIME in early 2007, Zuma summarized his revolutionary ideology in one short sentence: "I was oppressed." Not for Zuma the intellectual contortions that led even Mandela to cast crime as a white, counterrevolutionary plot or Mbeki to see AIDS as a Western drug-company conspiracy. Not for him either...