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Last Updated: Aug 9th, 2006 - 16:24:46 |
International Affairs
Wal-Mart Agrees to Unionization in China
SHANGHAI, Aug. 9 — After years of fighting unionization efforts at its stores, Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said today that it would work closely with Chinese officials to establish labor unions at all of its outlets here.
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Aug 9, 2006, 16:24
International Affairs
Cubans transformed face of Florida
MIAMI - It is a supreme irony: The most-hated man in Miami is arguably the city's greatest benefactor and among Florida's greatest agents of change.
Aug 7, 2006, 21:35
International Affairs
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Mexico
Kidnapping Mexican Democracy
MEXICO CITY -- To illustrate the "ad terrorem" method by which truth was imposed in totalitarian societies, Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski told a story: Two girls race each other in a park, the one who is behind repeatedly proclaiming at the top of her lungs, "I'm winning! I'm winning!," until the one in the lead gives up and runs crying to her mother, saying: "I can't beat her, she always wins."
Jul 27, 2006, 07:49
International Affairs
Growing pains: Vancouver's image as a great city more troubled than it is cracked up to be
Vancouver's new conservative mayor Sam Sullivan advocates a heroin maintenance and treatment programme for addicts, of the kind pioneered in Switzerland. This would reduce crime, he says, but it requires federal legislation to implement. He wants a community court to deal specifically with the mentally ill people and drug addicts who cause trouble on the downtown streets. But that would have to be set up by the provincial government. If Vancouver is to continue to live up to its reputation as an urban paradise, it will need a city government with the power, as well as the will, to keep it that way.
Jul 6, 2006, 03:23
International Affairs
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Mexico
Blacks, Mexicans and U.S. immigration
By BILL MAXWELL
Last May, Mexican President Vicente Fox caused a general stir when he criticized U.S. immigration policy.
Apr 19, 2006, 14:42
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