Issue: August 24, 2006 (Archive)

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End of our beautiful Friendship
Beijing's legendary store is being torn down to make way for a US$500 million development, writes Maureen Fan

Tourism becomes casualty of war
Sri Lankans suffer new blow after battling tsunami losses, writes Simon Gardner

Tarantula makes a tasty tidbit
As Tith Phalla gets off a bus in the bustling market town Skun, she is immediately besieged by food vendors proffering fried black and hairy eight- legged creatures.

Deserts grow with illegal trade in `get rich' algae
Say "get rich" when you step off a bus in the shabby northwestern Chinese town of Tongxin, and a swarm of taxi drivers rush to offer their services.

Why workers need to take break from holidays
The Japanese, needless to say, have a word for it. Karoshi - death from overwork.

Less Santa, more Scrooge please
Call it Alan Greenspan's global legacy. Along with creating an ad-hoc policy style that influenced peers the world over, Greenspan changed the image of the villainous, curmudgeonly central banker during his 18-plus years running the Federal Reserve. He made the job seem glamorous.

Playing cat and mouse on smoking
They chase each other at high speed wielding axes and hammers. But the famous cartoon duo of Tom and Jerry are in trouble for smoking on screen.

Students in rural retreat as urban jungle loses appeal
Three decades after Chairman Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, tens of thousands of Chinese students are once again streaming out of cities to the countryside in an ideological journey to experience rural life.

Ethiopian leader exploits global `war on terror'
By deploying troops in the arid wastes of southern Somalia, Ethiopia is risking a new regional war in the Horn of Africa.

A convenient scapegoat
"This has been an especially unhappy summer for the United Nations," Harvard historian Niall Ferguson observed in the Los Angeles Times last week - and who could disagree? With its mission in Lebanon unable to control Hezbollah, its blue-helmeted observers on the southern border blown away by Israeli shells and its role in the latest Mideast crisis being worked over in that boxing ring known as the Security Council, the UN seems to have fallen far short of its original, 1945 mission to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war." Even the cease- fire that was finally negotiated looks incomplete and liable to fragment in the very near future.

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