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...With a minimum price of $490,000 for a villa in Thames Town?more spacious digs go for $669,000?Songjiang New Town will be out of reach for many of the lower- and middle-class Shanghai residents whose housing woes these satellite towns were originally intended to address. More than 3 million migrant workers have flooded into Shanghai, and as the city center is torn up for office high-rises, 226,000 people were forced to relocate to suburbia in 2003. But a property bubble has prevented many citizens from finding affordable housing near Shanghai. "Of course, the developers...
...Viktor told her she must address people's concerns, starting with parliament," says Oleg Rybachuk, a Yushchenko confidant and M.P. for his Our Ukraine party who will soon become Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration. "That is Yuliya's headache. It's not just about getting the minimum number of votes needed to win; it's about getting broad support for the future." That support may not be so easy to come by. Though parliament is expected to confirm her nomination this week, Tymoshenko remains a divisive figure. Roman Bezsmertny, another M.P. for Our Ukraine, which is allied with Tymoshenko...
...formula of tough talk, backed by U.S. military might, will give way to a more conciliatory approach. The consensus among leading politicians is that the only way to bring the Sunnis back into the political fold is to try to negotiate an end to the resistance. "This is the minimum we need to do in order to deal with the security situation," says Tawfiq al-Yasseri, general secretary of the secular National Democratic Coalition...
...replace disgruntled employees as easily as they once could; wildcat strikes can cripple output for days or weeks. Almost imperceptibly, workers are starting to win concessions. As many as 3,000 employees at Shenzhen-based electronics manufacturer Haiyan staged a walkout in October to protest salaries that were below minimum wage; they were enticed back to the factory floor by a raise and the promise of back pay. A month later, 1,000 employees of the Shanlin electronics factory in the nearby city of Panyu returned to work after a two-day strike that secured them an increase in overtime...
...almost a month after the tsunami hit, those feared epidemics have yet to strike. Waterborne diarrheal diseases have been staved off through good sanitation and hygiene, aggressive insecticide use has kept malaria and dengue fever to a minimum, and meticulous surveillance has contained contagious illnesses. The battle against disease isn't over, but the medical response to the tsunami is shaping up to be a surprising success story for the field of emergency public health. "The situation is still evolving, still dynamic, but I think we are well prepared," says Dr. Jai Narain, the WHO's Southeast Asia regional adviser...