Friday, January 04, 2008

Congo: The Broken Heart of Africa

4 Dec 2006
Al Jazeera news

Part 1

(11 min)

Part 2

(12 min)

how the country with rich gold and diamond trapped in poverty? (including interview with rebel general Laurent Nkunda and president Joseph Kabila)

Bloody Tea in Assam

(1)
30 May 2007
Al Jazeera

Part 1

(12 min)

Part 2

(12 min)

Assam, North-east India, produces a quarter of the world's tea but is home to a 28-year insurgency.

(2)

檢視較大的地圖

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

US-Sudan relation

26 Aug 2007
Al Jazeera news

Part 1

(13 min)

Part 2

(10 min)

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

Van Dyke and Christmas

In a piece reprinted in the Kennedy anthology, Henry van Dyke writes:
Are you willing ... to own, that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness ... to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings ...? Then you can keep Christmas.

Maureen Dowd, "A tale of trigger"