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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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Cuba: Contemplating Change

Posted by Janine Mendes-Franco on 28/10/2009

“I think that for Cuba to transition to an open society from a society ‘with some emergency exits', some of the people now occupying positions of power in the government could take a long vacation…”: Octavo Cerco contemplates what's needed for meaningful change in Cub ...

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Hong Kong: Property market bubbles bursted into public outrage

Posted by Oiwan Lam on 27/10/2009

Earlier in October, an apartment in Hong Kong was sold for USD$57 million, a recording breaking price, locally and globally. The 6,158 square foot duplex apartment is in a building called “Conduit Road 39″ located at the western mid-levels of Hong Kong Island. The unidentified buyer is f ...

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