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In Flag City USA, False Obama Rumors Are Flying
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Pioneering Chinese City Offers a Peek at Political Ferment
FINDLAY, Ohio -- On his corner of College Street, Jim Peterman stares at the four American flags planted in his front lawn and rubs his forehead. Peterman, 74, is a retired worker at Cooper Tire, a fa... |
Pakistani Forces Move In On Taliban
SHENZHEN, China -- When China decided to liberalize its economy back in the late 1970s, Shenzhen was chosen as the vanguard, the first "special economic zone" allowed to do business free of Communist-... |
Fuel Prices Boost Cause of S. Asia's Maligned Rickshaw
KABUL, June 28 Hundreds of Pakistani military and police forces moved into the key northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday to head off a possible attack by the Taliban and other Islamist insurgents,... |
Beijing's Water Policies Add to Crisis, Report Says
NEW DELHI -- The bicycle rickshaws that weave through New Delhi's narrow lanes have long been scorned by authorities here for congesting the city's already fierce traffic. The creaking carriages cra..... |
Author Looks to the Koran For 99 New Superheroes
BEIJING, June 26 -- Beijing says it will host a green Olympics this August, but to keep taps flowing and parks beautiful, the city will rely on "shortsighted" measures and large-scale engineering proj... |
Panama says no to U.S. military base
KUWAIT CITY -- Naif al-Mutawa was in a London taxi with his sister when she asked when he'd go back to writing children's books. Mutawa, a Kuwaiti psychologist with two doctorates and an MBA from Co..... |
Merrill nears deal to sell Bloomberg stake: report
PANAMA CITY Reuters - Panama has ruled out hosting a U.S. military base to replace one in Ecuador which is being reclaimed by the Quito government, a senior Panamanian official said on Friday. ... |
Curfew in Indore
NEW YORK Reuters - Merrill Lynch & Co may sell its 20 percent stake in financial news and data provider Bloomberg LP to a blind trust controlled by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, The New Y... |
‘TPG, you’ve got 15 minutes’ - City chief’s deadline to put up or shut up over B&B
Indore: Fresh communal violence erupted here on Friday leading to imposition of curfew in the entire city, a day after four persons were killed in clashes during the BJP-VHP sponsored bandh against re... |