GILGIT: At 8.30 in the morning on Thursday, Masroor Wali makes a beeline to a firewood vendor with hopes of stockpiling firewood, his family’s only line of defence against the biting cold of Gilgit. This is the third consecutive day Wali has gone in search for wood before he goes to work for the government. But he returns empty-handed as there is no firewood left in the market. Firewood is what winter in Gilgit-Baltistan…
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By Simon Denyer in The Washington Post, November 6 at 5:11 PM BEIJING — When Chinese President Xi Jinping took a large government and business delegation to Tanzania on his inaugural trip abroad in March 2013, he took pains to emphasize that his country’s growing ties with Africa would benefit the people of the continent. But even as he spoke in glowing terms about unity and cooperation, his entourage was busy buying up thousands…
By EDWARD WONG in the NY Times, Nov 7, 2014 BEIJING — As a winter chill settled across China’s far northwest, 489 people boarded a chartered train in the city of Urumqi for the 50-hour ride to the country’s opposite corner, in semitropical Guangdong Province, to take up new factory jobs. “If I can adapt to life in Guangdong, I would consider opening a restaurant and settling down there,” said one passenger, Tahir Turghun,…