Sex trafficking in Nepal STORY HIGHLIGHTS Siddharth Kara is in Nepal investigating the sex industry Kara focused much of the week on workers in massage pparlorsand dance clubs. Kara will travel to urban and rural regions in several south Asian countries August 31, 2010 — Click to play Sex trafficking in Nepal Editors Note: Harvard…
When yes means maybe: Doing business in Nigeria By Susannah Palk for CNN London, England (CNN) — In a business culture where negotiations are fluid and what’s agreed on Monday might not necessary mean the same thing on Tuesday, how do you get the job done? It’s a challenge some foreigners encounter when doing business…
As China and India rise in tandem, their relationship will shape world politics. Shame they do not get on better
Today, I bring you, yes, Anna Chapman. In the middle of a heat wave, this hottie participated in a photoshoot with Russian tabloid Zhara (or “Heat” [Lord, the puns]), a rag on which she spent a long time deciding, fielding as she was, several offers to sell herself for her country yet again. But, it’s…
David and Julia Koch attend the opening night celebration of the New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center August 26, 2010 Chances are you’ve never heard of Charles and David Koch. The brothers own Koch Industries, a Kansas-based conglomerate that operates oil refineries in several states and is the company…
Kids of XXX Sex Tape Parents at Risk LOS ANGELES – Appearing in a homemade sex tape has helped line the bank accounts and enhance the “careers” of celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Kendra Wilkinson and, perhaps next, Heidi Montag. But with most starlets eventually settling down with spouses and children, is it their…
North Korea’s reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il is visiting China for the second time in three months, and this time he’s thought to have taken his son and heir apparent along for the trip, South Korean media reported today. The Yonhap News Agency, citing an official in Seoul who asked not to be identified, reported that…
The belligerent speech delivered by Hamas’ Damascus-based political leader Khaled Meshaal Tuesday, Aug. 24 only confirmed the information reaching Israel and the Palestinian Authority intelligence services that the extremist Palestinian group is set for large-scale terror attacks against Israeli and Palestinian West Bank targets. debkafile’s intelligence and counter-terror sources report Hamas is setting its sights…
I first spoke to Rick Steiner more than three months ago — about two weeks into the Deepwater Horizon disaster — after a source recommended I talk to him for I was writing about the spill as a teachable moment. Steiner is a marine conservationist and activist in Alaska who started studying oil spills when…
STORY HIGHLIGHTS In many African nations natural resources have led to economic instability Resource wealth can lead to corruption, cronyism and violence Conflicts in DR Congo, Liberia and Sierra Leone have been funded by diamonds Botswana and Ghana have largely avoided the “resource Many African countries are blessed with oil and mineral wealth that has…