The Construction Site Called Saudi Arabia

Posted by Matt in June 19th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Middle East, Alarm Bell, Bicycles, Buses, Construction Boom, Construction Site, Economy, King Abdullah Economic City, Lunch, November Afternoon, Oil Exports, Red Sea, Saudi-Arabia

[A detail from a rendering of the King Abdullah Economic City, on the Red Sea. It is one of six new cities planned by Saudi Arabia as it works to diversify its economy beyond oil exports.]
RABIGH, Saudi Arabia — THE alarm bell sounded the end of the lunch break here one November afternoon, and suddenly [...]

Welcome to Hizballahstan

Posted by Matt in May 16th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Middle East, American University Of Beirut, Bearded Men, Beirut, Buses, Corniche, Field Trip, Hamra District, hezbollah, Hizballah, Lebanon, Lingerie Shops, Loyalists, Members Of Parliament, Militants, Next Morning, Parliament, Rifles, Rocket Launchers, Seaside Promenade, Six Hours, Starbucks, West Beirut

But by the next morning, the battle for Beirut was mostly over. After just six hours of all-out fighting, Hizballah militants were in control of areas of West Beirut that had previously been the government’s preserve. This made for some incongruous scenes. Bearded men with rifles and rocket launchers secured lingerie shops and a Starbucks [...]

In India, Death to Global Business

Posted by Matt in May 10th, 2008 | no comment

Published in India, Attackers, Bows And Arrows, Bows Arrows, Buses, Business Classes, Chhattisgarh, Dense Forest, Essar Steel, Global Business, Guerrillas, Heavy Machinery, India, India Business, Insurgency, Iron Ore Processing, Local Resources, Maoist, Maoist Insurgents, Men And Women, Naxal, Naxalites, Runaway Growth, Sickles, Trucks

How a violent—and spreading—Maoist insurgency threatens the country’s runaway growth
On the night of Apr. 24, a group of 300 men and women, armed with bows and arrows and sickles and led by gun-wielding commanders, emerged swiftly and silently from the dense forest in India’s Chhattisgarh state. The guerrillas descended on an iron ore processing plant [...]

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