Apr
25
Another Starting Point of Drug Trafficking: Morocco
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Violet Wang (the 10th post)
The production of cannabis resin (also known as\ hashish) is also largely concentrated in North Africa (Morocco), besides central Asia, according to U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime. And the route of trafficking in cannabis resin is significantly inter-regional. from
North Africa (Morocco) to West and Central Europe.
Morocco, the north African [...]
Apr
25
Independents may support Democratic
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Kitty XIE Rui (7)
In U.S., a growing number of voters shun party membership and declare themselves independent in recent years. The statistics show that the number of independent voters will occupy one third of all voters in the coming presidential election.
Since the primaries began, huge numbers of independents have been embraced by both the Democratic [...]
Apr
25
History of Somalia (3) – Recent politics
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Emily Tsang
Mohamed Farrah Aidid, mentioned in the above article which focused on the history of “Black Hawk Down”, was later killed on Mogadishu in 1996.
In 2006, conflict broke out again between an alliance of Mogadishu warlords known as the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) and a militia loyal to the [...]
Apr
25
Hillary on China Policy
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Kitty XIE Rui (6)
Hillary Clinton is the first presidential candidate to make a public statement to urge President George W. Bush to boycott the Beijing Olympic opening ceremonies unless China improves human rights.
“I encourage the Chinese to take advantage of this moment as an opportunity to live up to universal human aspirations of respect for [...]
Apr
25
Boycotts Olympics? Athelets Say No.
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Tia Tian Chi
Back in 2001, there were strong disagreements with the decision by the International Olympic Commission to award the 2008 Olympics to Beijing because of China’s poor human rights records. The voice to boycott the Beijing Olympics has been continued for the past seven years with purpose-built websites like Boycott the Beijing Olympics [...]
Apr
25
Week 9: You sure your water is safe?
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Elmy Lung
Most were caught by surprise last month, when the news broke that there are drug residues found in water supplies for over 41 million Americans. The Associated Press (AP) filed the story after a five month investigation throughout the country, checking the water supplies of 25 major areas, “Southern California to Northern [...]
Apr
25
Superdelegates: often talked about but never questioned
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Tia Tian Chi
As the excitement around the Pennsylvania primary calms down, the aftershocks within the Democratic Party and its constituents will continue through until the next primaries in Indiana and North Carolina on May 6th. But what’s being overlooked despite all the media coverage is that despite Senator Clinton’s seemingly victory over Senator Obama [...]
Apr
25
Different drug, Similar and Severer Hurting Route
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
BY Violet Wang
Cannabis, another kind of drug raw material like opium, is creating harm to people via a production, processing, trafficking route similar to opium, again, originating from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Abuse of Cannabis is hurting people of the production and trafficking countries.
However, the situation seems to be worse than opium although productions of cannabis [...]
Apr
25
Iran’s opium dilemma
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
By Violet Wang
Iran drug users may have only one country to blame for their addiction: its neighboring Afghanistan. While Afghanistan people
easily fell to addiction of opium because of the country’s dominant production capacity of the plant in the world, Iranians get addicted due to the flow of drugs from Afghanistan to European countries.
Iran has [...]
Apr
25
Asian Pacific Americans’ choice
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Kitty XIE Rui (5)
In recent years, an increasing number of Asians emigrated to American and successfully assimilated into the local community. It forces U.S. politicians to attach greater weight to this group.
In response to the U.S. presidential election, 80-20 Initiative which is the largest national APA political Organization issued a questionnaire to presidential candidates of [...]
