WOMEN’S FORUM ENDS WITH RESERVATIONS
As the last delegates packed up and headed for China's Great Wall and the Forbidden City this weekend, they came away with the nagging feeling that the fourth UN Conference...
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EYE-OPENER FOR CHINESE DELEGATE
In only a few hours, Shi Li Hong's beliefs of a lifetime were threatened by outsiders, and her faith in government shaken to the point where she could only cry:...
CROATIAN TOWN: CENTURIES OF FLEEING THEN RETURNING
Stjepan Radio has come home again to the house his ancestors owned for centuries in a town where the seesawing fortunes of periodic Balkan wars have forced generations to flee-and...
CHINA-U.S. FIGHT: TOO MUCH TO LOSE
U.S.-Chinese relations dropped to 16-year low this weekend with the departure of ambassadors from both capitals. But the diplomatic row remains more cosmetic than authentic, observers say. Western and Asian...
GROWING WORKPLACE FATALITIES DIM GLOW OF CHINESE ECONOMY
The showplace of China's economic reforms has turned into a killing field for its workers. In early June, a new dormitory at a toy factory employing 1,000 workers collapsed, killing...
ASIAN WORKERS FIGHTING BACK
Five years after the violent suppression of pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, abusive working conditions have spawned a new human rights movement in East Asia. This time, though, idealistic students...
CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM FIGHTING DATES BACK CENTURIES
Territorial disputes in the southern Philippines have existed since the 14th Century, when Muslim forces pushing north from the southern tip of the Sulu Islands established their power as far...
FILIPINOS HOPE FOR REAL LIGHT AT TUNNEL’S END
The main topic of discussion among 55 million Filipinos for the last 13 months has been "When will there be light?" The lights on this archipelago have been switched off...
AIRLIFT BRINGS NO PEACE TO BOSNIA
Britain`s Lord Carrington failed Friday to convince the warring factions in Bosnia to sit down and negotiate a peaceful settlement. Hours after he left Sarajevo, Serbian artillery barrages rained down...
40 YEARS LATER, 17 PAINTERS FROZEN IN A TIME OF CHINA`S REVOLUTIONARY ZEAL
Song Guangxun and Niu Wen were awarded lifelong tenure at Painters` Village 41 years ago. Since then their classical drawings and prints of heroic deeds have decorated museums at home...