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With a rebel yell - The Economist (blog)
In the fighting that followed, a government official said, 376 people on both sides died: an accurate number may take weeks to emerge, if ever it does. In the confusion of the final battles, still ongoing in some pockets of the city, the certainty ...
August 22, 2011


Myanmar's government - The Economist (blog)
One of their MPs, who refused to give his name quite understandably, was quoted in the Irrawaddy as saying: “We were warned when we arrived here [the new parliament in the capital Naypyidaw] that we couldn't move around freely. ...
March 2, 2011


Vietnam's tourism industry - The Economist (blog)
A sustainable-tourism consultant who has worked in Ha Long bay (and asked not to be named) responds with horrified sarcasm. “Wow, so it happens again.” Many of the boaters allowed to ferry around tourists lack “even the most basic safety procedures or ...
February 28, 2011


Regulations and trade-offs - The Economist (blog)
But administration officials said the added cost is justified because the technology could potentially halve the number of deaths and injuries each year ...
December 7, 2010


Austan Goolsbee to CEA - The Economist (blog)
And if cornered and allowed to speak off the record, both would probably say that between political concerns and the dysfunction on Capitol Hill, ...
September 10, 2010


David Cameron's spin doctor - The Economist (blog)
Another ex-tabloid hack who declined to give his name (perhaps the least inspiring form of witness imaginable, it must be said) tells the Guardian that it ...
September 9, 2010


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