Opera Lover Plays Musical Chairs With Paint The Gallery Met at Lincoln Center places Guillermo Kuitca’s meditations on the architecture of opera houses in intimate proximity to the real thing.... Read Full Article Taipei Journal: Taiwan’s Bullet Trains Can?t Outrun Controversy The cost of Taiwan’s new commuter train system ? $15 billion, or $650 for every person on Taiwan ? has made it a subject of dispute.... Read Full Article Macao Bank Challenges U.S. Ban As Politically Based Banco Delta Asia, accused of committing financial crimes for North Korea, challenged a U.S. ruling that bars the bank from access to the U.S. financial system.... Read Full Article Cryptic Messages Or Silence From The ?60s Avant-Garde Either/Or, a new and first-rate new-music ensemble, returned to the self-absorbed world of the 1960s avant-garde on Friday night.... Read Full Article Chinese Police Arrest 28 In Riots Against Family Planning Laws As many as 3,000 people erupted in violence over measures to impose tighter family planning controls in a rural part of the Guangxi autonomous region in China.... Read Full Article |
World Briefing | Asia: Pakistan: Government Lawyer Quits Over Judicial CrisisProtests against the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry by President Pervez Musharraf continued as Deputy Attorney General Nasir Saeed Sheikh and another senior judge from Sindh Province resigned. Mr. Sheikh said it was difficult to work in the current judicial crisis. Judges, lawyers and opposition activists have been holding demonstrations across the country to condemn chief the justices suspension this month as an attempt by General Musharraf to muzzle the judiciary. Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationDemocracy Advocate Wins in Hong Kong...Election in South Korea Is Missing Its Suspense... From Shanghai, Tremors Heard Around the World... Wild Elephants Wreck Homes on India Isle... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - World Briefing | Asia: Pakistan: Government Lawyer Quits Over Judicial Crisis |
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