A recent report provides a snapshot of London's off-street prostitution, claiming that more than 8,000 women are working in brothels, saunas and massage parlors across the city, as well as businesses that put up ads in newspapers and websites. A closer look at the nationalities of these women...
More than 8,000 women are working as prostitutes in brothels, saunas and massage parlours in London, a report released today estimates.
Three quarters of them are foreign, with many smuggled into the country...
Thanks to record high US farm subsidies, American farmers can produce cheap crops that drive drown prices in foreign markets. Even though the US maintains that its farm subsidies are within WTO limits, countries around the world believe that the subsidies are contributing to the underdevelopment...
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Frequent flyers can now do their part to save the world while still jetting around it. Each passenger who takes the popular transatlantic New York – London route is guilty of polluting the air with 2,776 pounds of carbon dioxide. But environmental companies like London-based Future Forests can...
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As part of a national project to create what Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has called "an official Islam of France," delegates from mosques throughout the country voted for members of a new council that would officially represent France’s five million Muslims. Mr. Sarkozy said that...
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In the past decade, as China opened its markets to foreign investment, the northeastern city of Dandong developed into a bustling center of economic activity. But its North Korean counterpart city across the border, Sinuiju, is still languishing in bleak poverty. North Korea has made plans to...
DANDONG (China) - Streams of cars, trucks and taxis flow on bustling riverside roads in this Chinese city bordering North Korea.
Across the Yalu River, the North Korean city of Sinuiju offers a striking...
When Taiwan held legislative elections in late 2001, the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party won a majority of seats, leaving China surprised. This political turnaround has dealt a blow to the theory that economic integration between China and Taiwan will bring political integration.
As...
Taiwan’s recent legislative election has dashed Beijing's hope that greater economic integration between China and the renegade island could eventually bring about unification.
Following their joint accession...
人好事，结果变成了被救人的不知和回避感恩，离开现场，在引起公愤之后，公安部门还必须要动用公权力“地毯式排查”，像寻找通缉犯一样地“找到”被救者，并且还是在压力之下，被救者才前往“致歉”。这样的一出“闹剧”，从道德和法律层面上都漏洞颇多。在《东方早报》的黎明看来，这个凸显的是我们在民法立法上的不足。比如，他认为，遇险者和施救者之间其实是一个民事契约的关系，遇险者发出声音或者形象的信号求救，施救者施以援手，这就构成了一个民事契约。尽管这种在道义上比契约更高的义举，如果用民事契约来规定，会有贬低义举之中所包含的善意之嫌，但是，从民法上进行规定，就能保证对这种“逃恩者”进行民事处罚有法可依。这样一来...
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美国当选总统巴拉克•奥巴马面临着大量紧迫的经济和安全挑战。但耶鲁大学国际贸易和金融学教授、前美国商业和国际贸易部副部长杰里弗•加藤认为，这并不意味着奥巴马政府就应当忽视跟中国建立更紧密联系的重要性。中美两国需要彼此合作，一起振兴陷入衰退的全球经济，制定规则来应对气候变化和鼓励开发替代性能源，以及设计一个向更广泛的多极治理机制过渡的计划——把一个只有7国的集团替换为一个由20个主要国家构成的集团。加腾认为，“这个‘中央王国’ 跟美国内政外交上的利益都紧密联系，其他国家无法望其项背。而且，鉴于中国的经济增长率、2万亿美元的外汇储备、在世界经济中地位的不断上升以及在全球范围的影响日益扩大，...
国旗已备好: 将中国作为其出访的第一站,当选总统奥巴马将向国内外发出一个强烈的信号。
黑文： 当选总统奥巴马的过渡团队面临着骇人的内外挑战。从应对崩溃的经济到处理南亚之弧局势的恶化，下一任政府必须精确权衡这些挑战的优先顺序。但是，在处理众 多紧迫危机的时候，有一个危险是,新任总统有可能会把一些几乎对美国所作的一切都至关重要的最基本的关系放在一旁。这种关系的一个例子就是:强化与中国的 关系。从经济的角度看，在未来几十年内，美国将跟中国关系密切。美国需要中国的持续投资，...