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Japan: Debating the fate of Shimokitazawa

Posted by Chris Salzberg on 04/11/2009

Tokyo's neighborhood of Shimokitazawa is well-known for its complicated spaghetti-like web of shop-lined streets, train tracks and back alleyways, but that web may be in for a big change. Plans to redevelop the area to make way for a 26-meter wide thoroughfare had already aroused opposition amon ...

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Hong Kong: Luxury housing Ads

Posted by Oiwan Lam on 04/11/2009

ESWN brings the readers' attention to a recent judgment by the Hong Kong Broadcasting Authority on an Ads of a luxury development project for being misleading. You can see the Ads and the actual site via ESWN.

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Ukraine: Army Draft

Posted by Veronica Khokhlova on 02/11/2009

LJ user drugoi re-posts a photo story (RUS) by REUTERS/Gleb Garanich on the fall 2009 draft into Ukrainian army, which has now been suspended due to flu outbreak.

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Syria: Economic Woes

Posted by Yazan Badran on 01/11/2009

Ehsani, an economist and contributor to Joshua Landis‘ Syria Comment, elaborates on the divisions between Syria's top economy decision makers. The Commission for State Planning published a rare report criticizing Abdulla Dardari's, Deputy PM for Economic Affairs, liberal economic polic ...

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China's Dark Satanic Mills

Posted by Robert Woo on 28/10/2009

On Oct. 14th, Chinese photographer Lu Guang won this year's $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his photos on Chinas environment. The Funds website posts the following paragraph describing Lu Guangs project:Lu Guang has been documenting the ecological disasters in China r ...

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