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Just a week ago, the main Palestinian political parties, Fatah and Hamas, were talking about forging a national unity government. Now, their supporters are fighting each other in running street battles in the West Bank and Gaza, in what may be the opening salvos in a Palestinian civil...
...baby has been thrown out with the bathwater. But the baby will be retrieved." KRIT GARNJANA-GOONCHORN, Thailand's senior foreign-affairs official for both the previous government and the new ruling military junta, promising that restrictions on civil liberties imposed after the recent coup would eventually be removed...
...Moss's book-the third volume in an autobiographical trilogy that began with Bye Bye Blackbird and Distant Archipelagos-is more than just a civil servant's confessional, however. The story begins with his arrival in Hong Kong in 1965 as a senior information officer in Government Information Services (the departmental initials were sarcastically said to stand for "God Is Speaking"). A rich store of anecdotes spans what were, arguably, the most tumultuous periods of Hong Kong's history-the civil unrest and refugee influx of the late 1960s, the social changes wrought by the rapid industrialization of the 1970s...
...oppressive rulers. Burma's generals will celebrate the Thai military's takeover, and the months of political deadlock that preceded it, because it proves what they've insisted all along: democracies don't work and civilians can't run countries. Burma is a large, ethnically diverse nation scarred by civil war, and the military has always presented itself as the only guarantee of national unity (while simultaneously running the country into the ground). The Thai coup will bolster its case...
...While he acknowledges that such an approach could draw the ire of local authorities, Wen notes that federal agencies such as the State Environmental Protection Administration are actually encouraging grassroots groups to expose environmental wrongdoing. "The problem isn't the limited space available for actions in China's civil society," he says. "[There is] room to take action if you are creative. You have to be bold." After all, he says, given the scale of the environmental problems China faces, "it's not as if we have much time left...