Could Pakistan Floods Wash Away Feudalism?
Pakistan Link, Commentary, Posted: Sep 27, 2010
Could the devastating floods in Pakistan provide an opportunity to do away with the viselike grip of feudalism over the country?
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Tags: feudalism, Pakistan floods
Mossad at the Door?
Aramica, News Report, Posted: Sep 26, 2010
A former CIA officer claims that Mossad agents have been posing as U.S. intelligence agents to Arabs and Muslims in New York and New Jersey.
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Japan Releases Captain After China Stops Rare Earth Metal Exports
Asian Weekly, News Report, Posted: Sep 24, 2010
Japan released the Chinese fishing-boat captain after China stopped exporting rare metals to Japan.
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China Warns of Further Action If Japan "Clings to Mistake"
China Daily USA, News Report, Posted: Sep 23, 2010
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao warned of further action if Japan does not release the illegally detained Chinese fishing captain.
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Tags: China, Chinese captain, DiaoYu Islands, earth metals, fishing boat, Japan, Senkaku Islands, Wen Jiabao
“Compassion Is Contagious”—Vietnamese-American Radio Host Broadcasts Haiti’s Pain
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Sep 22, 2010
A Vietnamese-American radio host from Houston talks about why she felt compelled to go to Haiti to help earthquake victims.
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Tags: earthquake, haiti, vietnam
How an Arab-American Hero Helped Thwart Chicago Bombing
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Sep 21, 2010
Terror suspect allegedly wanted to embarrass Mayor Richard M. Daley by creating mayhem in an area of clubs and restaurants near Wrigley Field.
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Tags: bomb, Chicago, FBI, RichardMDaley, terror
35 Years After War's End, Vietnamese Diaspora Finds Its Way Home
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Sep 19, 2010
Every year, nearly 500,000 Viet Kieu—Vietnamese living overseas—return home, many to visit relatives, but others increasingly to work, invest and retire.
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Tags: boatpeople, refugees, Vietnam, VietnameseAmericans
Mexican Dispatch: Even in Wine Lover's Paradise, Drug War Takes Its Toll
PBS NewsHour, News Report, Posted: Sep 19, 2010
Mexican winemakers blame publicity over drug violence for a big drop in sales of wine.
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Mexican Dispatch: Tijuana Is No Juarez, Residents Insist
PBS NewsHour, News Report, Posted: Sep 18, 2010
Times are harder than ever in Tijuana, and the publicity about the Mexican government's war against narco-traffickers doesn't help.
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Tags: drugtrafficking, Juarez, Mexico, police, Tijuana, tourism, violence
New America Now: Adoption Across Borders
New America Media, Audio, Posted: Sep 17, 2010
An adoption special - stories from China, Korea and India explore how families grapple with the joys and perils of adoption.
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Tags: adoption, china, india, south korea
Want More Chinese Tourists? U.S. Needs to Improve Service, Safety
China Daily USA, News Report, Posted: Sep 16, 2010
Last year, 520,000 travelers from China visited the U.S., and that could increase to 800,000 this year—but changes need to be made.
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Mexican Dispatch: A Quiet Beach Town, Kept That Way by "Tourist" Police
New America Media/PBS NewsHour, News Report, Posted: Sep 16, 2010
Rosarito Beach's quiet main street gives little hint of how hard this tourist community has struggled to remain peaceful over the past four years.
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Tags: drugtrafficking, Mexico, police, tourism, violence
Remittances to Vietnam: $7 Billion a Year
Nguoi Viet, News Report, Posted: Sep 15, 2010
In 2008, Vietnam emerged as the 10th-leading recipient of immigrant remittances among developing countries, with $7.2 billion received.
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Tags: immigrant, money, remittances, vietnam
Foreign Investors Loan Money for Green Cards
China Daily USA, News Report, Posted: Sep 14, 2010
A $120 million expansion of New York's Brooklyn Navy Yard will take advantage of an immigration investment program that permits foreign investors to loan money for government-approved projects in exchange for a green card.
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Tags: Chinese, EB-5, green cards, immigrants, immigration, Investors, New York, US Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services
Nine Years After 9/11, the U.S. Remains Stuck
Pakistan Link, Commentary, Posted: Sep 11, 2010
From an impasse in Afghanistan to immigration battles in Arizona, America remains embroiled in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, USA
From Pakistan to Darfur: Climate Change's Emerging Political Hotspots
New America Media, Question & Answer, Posted: Sep 10, 2010
In the wake of devastating floods, Pakistan is the latest example of how climate change is altering the geopolitical landscape.
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Tags: climate change, floods, Pakistan
Obama Plan on Export Reform—Win-Win for China and Silicon Valley?
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Sep 09, 2010
Export-control reform could strengthen U.S.-China relations and simplify the lives of ethnic Chinese professionals working in high-tech industries.
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Tags: China, export control, Obama, US
Could Vietnam Be America’s New Counterweight to China?
New America Media, Commentary, Posted: Sep 08, 2010
Hillary Clinton sent shock waves through East Asia at the ASEAN summit, leaving the government of Vietnam in a Catch-22 situation.
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Tags: ASEAN, China, HillaryClinton, Vietnam
The Rising Tide of Maoists in India
Siliconeer, Commentary, Posted: Sep 07, 2010
Horrific socio-economic disparity, marginalization, and a lack of peaceful avenues to agitate for redressal are helping the threat of Maoist/Naxal violence grow.
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The Conversation—Roy and Rodriguez on the Massacre of Migrants in Mexico
New America Media, Video, Posted: Sep 06, 2010
A look at two faces of desperation—the massacred migrants in Mexico and the flood victims on the road in Pakistan.
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Tags: flood, Mexico, migrants, Pakistan, Richard Rodriguez
Silicon Valley Raises Money for Pakistani Flood Relief
New America Media, Video, Posted: Sep 04, 2010
NAM's Odette Keeley and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Umair Khan discuss the "Us Now" Bay Area fundraiser for Pakistan flood victims.
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Tags: floods, fundraiser, pakistan, relief, SiliconValley
Will United Nations Cover Up Rwanda’s Congo Genocide?
Black Star News, Op-ed, Posted: Sep 03, 2010
The internationally created special court prosecuted the killers of Tutsis. Now it’s time to bring to book the killers of Hutus.
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Eye on Arab Media: Give Pakistan a Break
New America Media, News Analysis, Posted: Sep 03, 2010
Pakistanis displaced by the flood are in desperate need of shelter, food and clean water but aren't getting enough help.
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Tags: aid, arab media, charity, donation, Pakistan floods, taliban, us, victims, war
A Muslim-American Daughter's Plea: Build Your Mosque Somewhere Else
LA Beez , Commentary, Posted: Sep 01, 2010
On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, I watched as terrorists slammed United Arilines Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center. My mother was on the flight.
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Tags: Cordoba House Islamic Cultural Center, Ground Zero, Islam, Muslim, Sept 11, Twin Towers