Hong Kong: A growing number of Americans are paying $3,000 to adopt Chinese orphan baby girls, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Sunday. The Sunday Morning Post said demand was so high that the United States consulate in the south China city of Guangzhou had set up an adoption unit staffed by a state department…
By Raja Asghar Islamabad, Aug.10: Pakistan marks its golden jubilee this week with its frayed democratic institutions under pressure from ethnic and religious violence, economic strains and a profound disenchantment with the ruling elite. “Clearly there is panic on all sides,” political commentator Nasim Zehra wrote in a recent article. “The government knows it is…
Reuters correspondent Doon Campbell, who arrived in India in March 1947 and spent the next 15 months covering the independence of India and birth of Pakistan as well as the tragic assassination of Mahatma Gandhi a few months later, is now 77 and lives in retirement in England. In this seventh article in a series…