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Arrested by Taiwanese coastal police last month while trying to sneak across from the Chinese mainland, Lu Jing had only one question: "Is Zai Zai in Kaohsiung?" And with that one simple query, the 22-year-old from Fujian province became the unofficial...
...Many Kabul women said they planned to start going burka-less from the Afghan New Year, which was celebrated last week. Nasrin Qasim Zai, who works in Kabul University's student registry says many of her friends are waiting for other women to lead the way. She pulls her light blue-colored burka back to reveal dark lipstick, gold earrings and faux leopard skin high heels. "Women will discard the burka only gradually as the security improves," she says, as she waits with friends for the bus home after work. "The important difference now is that we have a choice...
...suddenly face an astonishing variety of Tibetan products, mostly from Chinese state-run companies. Last year's new goodies included Tibet Grass brand ginseng-berry juice, a sorghum liquor called Tibet Fragrant Spring and Tibetan Highland barley wine. "Chinese like our drink because of Tibet's mysterious feelings," says Zai Shudong, who bought ads on national TV for his company's sorghum brew. Trendies in Shanghai can shop for Tibetan jewelry at boutiques just off the glitziest commercial street. At the Traditional Tibetan Medicine Hospital in Beijing, director Renwang Ciren spent a recent morning tending to the ailments...
...feng shui (phong schway) a nutty fad, but this Eastern art of furniture placement has been facilitating living room energy flow for over 4,000 years. Here, FM plays Master of Decor and points out feng shui do's and don'ts, stopping two Harvard venues from becoming xiong zai (houses of doom...
Khalid Mohammed Zai, 22, was a member of an Islamic paramilitary unit, based in Kulty Chawni in Pakistan's Punjab province. He says his unit was under the control of the ISI, and his mission, as it was explained to him and 1,000 other Pakistani fighters he says entered Afghanistan during the past two months, was to "go as a fighter and rise to a high position of influence." He was transported across the border by Pakistani military vehicles and, once in Kabul, received orders and money from the senior Pakistani officer in Kabul, a man named Naser. Zai...