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...Among other measures, the proposal calls for smoothing immigration and customs procedures, coordinating airport and train facilities, and allowing money to flow more easily across the border. The proposal is rooted in a much grander vision than merely cutting bureaucratic red tape, however. The goal in melding Hong Kong and Shenzhen, the report said, is to create a megacity that, by 2020, would surpass London and Los Angeles as an international economic juggernaut. It's a quintessentially capitalist solution befitting a quintessentially capitalist city. Need to grow to keep pace with competitors? Find a merger partner. "I think a closer...
...from his grandfather as a boy. The older man had been a prisoner of war in the town in the early 1940s, and had told young Patrick that horrors had occurred there. When Desbois arrived in Rava-Ruska - a town of about 8,000 a few miles from the border with Poland - to learn what had happened, "it was like a black hole," he says. "There was nothing in the books." Desbois says the then mayor declined to divulge details. But when the priest returned a year later, the deputy mayor, Yaroslav Nadiak, led him to the forest of Borowe...
...uncovered took place in remote, desolate country villages that today seem frozen in a bygone age; they still have little electricity and no indoor plumbing. On New Year's Day, TIME traveled with Desbois to the tiny village of Vysotsk in northern Ukraine, a few miles from the Belarus border. We drove for nearly eight hours from Rava-Ruska through the countryside in temperatures approaching -4 degrees F (-20 degrees C). In the back of his rented van, Desbois pored over translations of documents from 1944 when Soviet officials went to Vysotsk to question villagers. Their report, now housed...
...rally. Albert Chan, a legislator from the same party, notes that mainland authorities have become increasingly sophisticated in dealing with the territory's demands for greater freedoms. "Beijing continues to give a lot of goodies to Hong Kong," Chan says, in the form of cross-border infrastructure projects and investment. "But," Chan adds, "no matter how good the master treats the slave, the slave should fight for its rights...
...month's presidential elections threatens that progress. A potential implosion in Kenya is especially worrying to the U.S. because the White House sees it as a frontline state in the war on terrorism, a bulwark against its volatile, jihadi-infested neighbor Somalia. Terrorists have occasionally slipped across Kenya's border, as in 1998, when al-Qaeda simultaneously bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, another neighbor. In 2007 the Bush Administration gave the government of President Mwai Kibaki about $1 billion in military and other aid. And there are special-operations soldiers based in Kenya at Manda...