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Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 12:12pm EDT by By NINA BERNSTEIN

Complaints of inadequate care have drawn scrutiny to the network of jails where the government holds people while deciding whether to deport them.
A Taste of Failure Fuels an Appetite for Success at South Korea’s Cram Schools

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 2:49am EDT by By CHOE SANG-HUN

South Koreans say their obsession to get their children into top-notch universities is nothing short of “a war” and are turning to intense, regimented campuses.
Insurgency’s Scars Line Afghanistan’s Main Road

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 1:49am EDT by By CARLOTTA GALL

A highway that was once the showpiece of the United States reconstruction effort is now a dangerous gantlet of mines and attacks.
Questions Swirl After Death of China’s Food Safety Chief

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 1:48am EDT by By DAVID BARBOZA

Wu Jianping, the head of China’s food safety watchdog, died after jumping from a building a day after being questioned by prosecutors about his financial assets.
China Steps Up Scrutiny of a Minority in Beijing

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 1:09am EDT by By JAKE HOOKER

The Olympic opening ceremony contained traditional Uighur song and dance. But most of the several thousand Uighurs who work here have left.
3 Western Aid Workers and an Afghan Driver Killed in Attack

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 1:08am EDT by By CARLOTTA GALL

The victims were employed by the International Rescue Committee, a relief organization that has been assisting Afghan refugees since the mid-1980s.
World Briefing | Asia: Kashmir: Muslims Riot After Killings

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 1:04am EDT by By REUTERS

Muslims angry about this week’s killings of protesters by the police torched security bunkers and rioted Wednesday in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city.
Specter of Arrest Deters Demonstrators in China

Posted: August 14th, 2008, 12:43am EDT by By ANDREW JACOBS

In an authoritarian country that bans almost all forms of public protest, the newfound openness seemed too good to be true. And it was.