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Changing the World: Three initiatives or policies by and for young people that are that changing lives and raising awareness in Brazil, China, and Ghana.
Brazil’s affirmative action law offers a huge hand up
Yale graduate takes low-paying job as a village official in China
How to keep youths down on the farm? Offer incentives.
Photos: (Top) Thaiana Rodrigues graduated from the State University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. She went there as part of a quota system based on race and economic status. Photo by: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor
(Left) Barbers shave villagers ahead of the Lunar New Year at a market in Juancheng, in China’s Shandong province, last week. Reuters Photo
Cocoa farmers work in western Ghana. In parts of the West African country the average age of farmers now exceeds 50 years. Photo by: Yaw Bibini/Reuters/File
Olympic medal count: USA sets historic gold medal mark
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Olympic Medal Count
China and the US are fighting it out for the total number of medals earned at the London Olympics, but China is dominating the gold medal count.
Where do international adoptions happen? Follow our series chronicling the adoption story for one family - http://bit.ly/AdoptionDiaryPart2
What counts as a “megacity” by today’s UN standards?
PHOTO: New recruits in the Afghan National Army learn how to shoot M-16 rifles. (Melanie Stetson Freeman/Staff)
After years of standing in the background, Beijing is starting to show signs of closer engagement with its strife-torn neighbor in a bid to ward off disaster, say Chinese and foreign analysts.
When Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao here on Friday, they will raise their countries’ bilateral relations to a “new strategic level,” an Afghan official told reporters in Kabul this week.
READ: Why China is likely to get more involved in Afghanistan
Exclusive: potential China link to cyberattacks on gas pipeline companies
Those analyzing the cyberspies who are trying to infiltrate natural-gas pipeline companies have found similarities with an attack on a cybersecurity firm a year ago. At least one US government official has blamed China for that earlier attack.
Shen Dingli, a professor of international relations at Fudan University in Shanghai, commenting on the risks of shipping workers abroad. More than 50 Chinese workers were seized in two separate incidents in Sudan and Egypt in the past three days.
