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1. Lost souls inside Afghanistan's graft-riddled narco state

   Posted Jan 08th 2012, 12:00am

   ... Asia Asia Opioids 3rd Millennium Afghanistan Bron Sibree Opium Nation by Fariba Nawa Harper Perennial In her prologue to this gripping narrative, veteran American-Afghan ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/989512/lost-souls-inside-afghanistans-graft-riddled-narco-state
2. The Punishment of Virtue - Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban

   Posted Jul 22nd 2007, 12:00am by Tim Cribb

   ... Entertainment Asia Asia 3rd Millennium Afghanistan Tim Cribb The Punishment of Virtue - Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban by Sarah Chayes Penguin, HK$128 'Kandahar has arguably replaced Moscow as the ideological antipode to everything we Americans think we believe in,' Sarah Chayes recently wrote in the Boston Review. Chayes, once a radio correspondent covering ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/601404/punishment-virtue-inside-afghanistan-after-taliban
3. A fresh US face at the UN, but his baggage has some worried

   Posted Jan 13th 2007, 12:00am by Joshua Kucera

   ... Politics Pashtun People 3rd Millennium Zalmay Khalilzad's Pentagon past may haunt him as he moves from one tricky post to another, writes Joshua Kucera in New York In 1992, the Pentagon produced a controversial document, the Draft Defence Planning Guidance, which described a bold, unprecedented role for the United States after winning the cold war. The over-arching ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/578500/fresh-us-face-un-his-baggage-has-some-worried
4. With luck, and courage, Afghans can turn a corner

   Posted Oct 09th 2004, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Politics Asia Asia 3rd Millennium Afghanistan The people of Afghanistan go to the polls today, and they do so in a climate of fear. But if the many problems threatening this historic election can be overcome, voters will set their troubled country on the road to recovery - and give it fresh hope. This is the first direct presidential election in Afghanistan since the nation ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/473440/luck-and-courage-afghans-can-turn-corner
5. An election milestone, but how free are Afghan voters?

   Posted Sep 13th 2005, 12:00am by Maseeh Rahman

   ... Asia Taliban Asia 3rd Millennium Afghanistan Afghanistan goes to the polls on Sunday poised on the brink of historic change. Maseeh Rahman begins a series on the challenges facing this budding democracy Ahmed Khan gestures towards the election poster on the door of a refrigerator repair shop in the heart of Kabul. 'Sure, she's beautiful, but I am not going to vote ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/516080/election-milestone-how-free-are-afghan-voters
6. Iraqis must brave the violence and vote

   Posted Jan 19th 2005, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Politics War Politics of Iraq 3rd Millennium The landmark elections in Iraq on January 30 will take place in chaotic conditions dominated by widespread fear and violence. This is becoming increasingly clear as security worsens. Attacks by insurgents have been escalating as polling day approaches and they have hit almost every part of the country. Foreign workers continue to be targeted, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/486147/iraqis-must-brave-violence-and-vote
7. Letters

   Posted Sep 22nd 2003, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... War International Relations 3rd Millennium History lessons Your correspondent A. Nottrass ('Necessary invasion', September 18) claims that those leaders and nations who do not learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them. Is he saying that the US has failed to learn from the carnage it wrought in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia that it cannot impose its way ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/428694/letters
8. Power plays

   Posted Nov 22nd 2002, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Politics Major League Baseball 3rd Millennium When Hong Kong's Solicitor-General Robert Allcock landed in Washington this week, he may have detected an undercurrent of concern about the loss of much-cherished personal freedoms. It would have had nothing to do with Article 23 of the Basic Law, the reason for his lobbying trip to the US capital. The expansion of the powers ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/398340/power-plays
9. Truth or propaganda?

   Posted Jun 05th 2003, 12:00am by Brad Glosserman

   ... Politics International Relations 3rd Millennium Brad Glosserman I just wrapped up a 10-day speaking tour for the US State Department. I was participating in the department's public diplomacy programme, which sends folks to speak to universities, think-tanks and public forums. This trip took me to Vladivostok and Sakhalin in eastern Russia, and to Hanoi, where I delivered two ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/417574/truth-or-propaganda
10. China offers hope for Afghanistan

    Posted Jul 17th 2012, 12:00am

    ... War China China Asia War in Afghanistan Asia 3rd Millennium Developed nations have always had good intentions towards ...

    http://beta.scmp.com/article/1006992/china-offers-hope-afghanistan

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