Chinese adoption officials have attributed the recent decline in international adoption to several factors, including the decreased number of children entering orphanages, the growing number of domestic adoptions, and an increased interest among citizens of other countries in adopting Chinese-born children...
Social interventions, such as dialogue with citizens, may give voices to residents living in a neighbourhood regarding the types of changes that they desire, but would a municipality ever dream of, or even have the financial capacity to initiate such types of large-scale investments in a de-...
The rooms overlooking the beach housed society’s outcasts. It was locally known that many of the occupants were newly released from gaol. They would spend their days drinking long necks and abusing passers-by or making lewd comments to attractive women. This didn’t seem to bother the locals...
Bahadur’s great grandmother was a Brahmin widow from the village of Ghurahupur, Bihar. “According to tradition, [she was] supposed to negate [herself] in mourning forever, could not remarry, inherit property and [hence], was subject to hunger...
labeling in situations where I firmly disagree. It doesn’t mean we all have to agree on the same course, ideologies or fiscal policies, however, we should not resort to name calling, but instead should recognize that we both want what is best for the citizens even if they are wrong (:...
dropouts and outcasts. Rock concerts and alternative happenings were held on the premises, and it was even the target of an attack by East Berlin neo-fascist skinheads. Like most East German churches, it was left to decay by a state that wished religion would disappear in the ...
It’s not surprising that some citizens would rather have control over their own food production, in hopes to avoid tainted produce in turn leading to an increase in interest in organic produce. There are currently 1.6 million hectares of organic farming in China (total arable land in China is...
The city is in a state of emergency and all citizens are being urged to head as quickly as possible for the evacuation points. Make your way through the chaos, trying to avoid the droids at all costs along your way. Mentor:Warda Rashid Khan, Producer and Game Designer ...
The speaker’s political foes have pointed to a handful of other conservative priorities that did not make it through the House, including a proposal to bar the sale of Texas farmland to citizens and entities associated with China and several other countries. Covey has al...
during the Olympic torch relay, which was to briefly pass that section of the highway a week before the opening ceremony that September. South Korea touted the Seoul Summer Games as its glorious coming-out party to the world, but only after years of effort to hide its poorest citizens. ...