Friday, September 29, 2006

U.S. lags in push to lift visa quota

U.S. lags in push to lift visa quota
By S. Mitra Kalita
The Wall Street Journal Europe
29 Sep 2006

THE WASHINGTON POST For U.S. technology companies and research institutions that have spent recent autumns lobbying for permission to hire more workers from overseas, this was supposed to be the year that ended the annual rite of desperation. A bill... read more...

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Family tree of Chinese sage branches out to include women

Family tree of Chinese sage branches out to include women
Jonathan Watts Beijing
The Guardian
28 Sep 2006

It has taken almost 2,557 years, but the family tree of Confucius, the philosophical father of Asia’s male dominated society, is finally going to acknowledge women. Female descendants will be recognised in a new lineage chart of the Chinese sage’s... read more...
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Monday, September 25, 2006

New Thai leaders launch corruption probe

New Thai leaders launch corruption probe
By James Hookway
The Wall Street Journal Europe
25 Sep 2006

BANGKOK—Thailand’s newmilitary rulers—still searching for a civilian leader to head an interim government—have formed a teamof investigators to probe allegations of corruption against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in an apparent attempt to... read more...

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Amnesty criticizes China

Amnesty criticizes China
By Mei Fong
The Wall Street Journal Europe
21 Sep 2006

BEIJING—China’s human-rights situation is deteriorating in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, withmore restrictions on press freedom and forcible evictions of residents from Olympics-related sites, according to a report by Amnesty International... read more...

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Afghanistan threatens NATO’s credibility, global-expansion goal

Afghanistan threatens NATO’s credibility, global-expansion goal
By Molly Moore And John Ward Anderson
The Wall Street Journal Europe
19 Sep 2006

THE WASHINGTON POST BRUSSELS—More than aweekafter the NorthAtlantic Treaty Organization’s top leaders publicly demanded reinforcements for their embattled mission in southern Afghanistan, few members of the 26-nation alliance have offered more troops,... read more...

Monday, September 18, 2006

President may withdraw deadline for African Union peacekeepers to leave

President may withdraw deadline for African Union peacekeepers to leave
Jonathan Steele
The Guardian
18 Sep 2006

Sudan is expected to withdraw its deadline for African Union peacekeepers to leave the war-torn western region of Darfur at the end of this month, when AU foreign ministers discuss the mounting crisis in New York today, according to senior officials in... read more...

Pope ‘deeply sorry’ but Muslim protests spread

Pope ‘deeply sorry’ but Muslim protests spread
John Hooper Rome
The Guardian
18 Sep 2006

Italian police were yesterday ordered to tighten security at potential Catholic targets across the country as the leaders of the Roman Catholic church anxiously waited to see if a personal expression of regret by Pope Benedict would assuage Muslim fury... read more...

Friday, September 08, 2006

Lancet caught up in row over Haiti murders

Lancet caught up in row over Haiti murders
Duncan Campbell
The Guardian
08 Sep 2006

The Lancet medical journal is investigating complaints that it published a misleading account of violence in Haiti that appears to exonerate the supporters of the exiled leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide of murder, sexual assaults and kidnapping. The... read more...

Thursday, September 07, 2006

U.S. immigration acrimony grows

U.S. immigration acrimony grows
By June Kronholz
The Wall Street Journal Europe
07 Sep 2006

RIVERSIDE, NEW JERSEY, passed anordinance thissummerthat would bar illegal immigrants fromholding a job or renting an apartment there. When Riverside’s Latino community held a prayer vigil to protest the measure a few weeks later, counterdemonstrators... read more...

Saturday, September 02, 2006

Move to Britain? They’re all drunks and psychos

Move to Britain? They’re all drunks and psychos
Luke Harding Sofia
The Guardian
02 Sep 2006

Standing outside the British embassy in Sofia yesterday, Rozalina Boeva admits she wants a better life. After three years she has had enough — of Britain. She is coming home to Bulgaria. “I'm fed up. I don't like it in Britain much,” Ms Boeva, a... read more...