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2010-03-14 Chinas elephants jostle for a little room

In a village in Mengman township scented by frangipani trees and fields of tea, elephant monitor Ai Zhang, 53, concurs. "The villagers get angry with the elephants, but there is nothing they can do about it. The elephants are protected by the government," he said, sipping tea on the second-story veranda of a bamboo house with a pointed roof, a traditional style of the Dai ethnic minority.

When angry, elephants can turn deadly. In 2008, a woman was trampled to death in her food kiosk in a tourist park here called Wild Elephant Valley. A few months later at the same park, an elephant critically injured a U. S. tourist trying to take pictures.

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The love between man and elephant does not come easily. - Asia news world

2010-03-11 Locally Grown: Potluck of the Irish Food and Wine ( The Capital)

More than that, though, I think it was the first time I really realized there was a whole world of ethnic cuisines that I was not aware of. Knowing my budget would probably never allow me to visit these places, I vowed to journey to them through their food.

Since I have loved to cook since I was very young, reading the food pages of the local newspapers has always been a habit of mine. That first year on my own, though, I spent so much time working and balancing my budget that cooking took a back seat. Its likely that my new cat, Snagglepuss, was eating better than I.

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2010-03-08 ISNER FALLS VALIANTLY TO DJOKOVIC AS U. S. FALLS IN DAVIS CUP PLAY World Tennis Magazine

Serbia advances into a curious quarterfinal match against Croatia, a country it waged a bitter, ethnic war with in the 1990s. Croatia defeated Ecuador 5-0 in the first round. Two-time defending champion Spain defeated Switzerland 4-1 and will travel to France in the quarterfinals. France defeated Germany 4-1. Russia defeated India 3-2 and will next host Argentina, a 3-2 winner over Sweden. The Czech Republic defeated Belgium 4-1 and will play the winner of Israel and Chile in the quarterfinals.

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John Isner fought valiantly Sunday, playing in his debut Davis Cup series against the No. 2 player in the world, on foreign soil, on an uncomfortable clay court, with over 10,000 Serbian fans cheering against him. - John isner nenad zimonjic atp tour novak djokovic sam querrey andy roddick quarterfinal match chicken curry davis cup achieving goals james blake final score zone group ethnic war bob

2010-03-07 Wars horrors passed on in The Milk of Sorrow - The Envelope - LA Times

The film joins a growing cadre of Latin American movies that address issues of ethnic bias and simmering class inequality. To earn money to bury her mother, Fausta goes to work as a domestic servant for a light-skinned, upper-class female pianist. The gulf between them is expressed most pointedly through differences in music and language: although Fausta speaks Spanish, her mother tongue is

Llosa had met Solier years earlier, when Solier was selling food in a plaza in the Ayacucho region, former epicenter of Shining Path activity. Llosa cast her in her first feature, "Madeinusa. " Solier, 23, also a popular singer in Peru, conveys a forceful personality in a quiet, internalized way, Llosa said. "Its an energy. You can see it in her eyes when you look at them. "

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When Claudia Llosa was growing up in Lima, Peru, adolescence wasnt a time for hanging out with friends in the streets. The country was in the grip of a brutal civil war pitting the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas against a government determined to stamp them out at any cost. - Entertainment

2010-03-06 North Marion County, Indiana, breaking news, photos, things to do The Indianapolis Star

Oscar Night Charity Extravaganza will feature local actors and area ethnic restaurants food, and honor local veterans.

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2010-03-04 Cents and Sensibility: Why Marketing to Multicultural Consumers Requires a Subtle Touch - Knowledge@Wharton

The first step was to prompt the second-generation participants to "think Chinese" when they were shown nine symbols of Chinese culture, such as a pagoda and the Great Wall, for what they thought was a study about culture. They then were asked to participate in a different study for a new rice product, by looking at ads -- some of them "identity congruent" (rice for Chinese dishes), others "identity incongruent" (rice for Italian dishes). The ads elicited more negative reactions when they were perceived to be culturally inconsistent. "Only when respondents had been made to think Chinese by exposure to ethnic cues, did their level of Chinese identification influence their disliking toward an identity-incongruent product," according to the paper.

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2010-03-03 Metro Spirit: Features - Garden (City) of Delights

A report released in October found that sales of ethnic foods in the United States were poised to set a record high of usd. 2. 2 billion for 2009, according to an article in The Gourmet Retailer, a trade publication. The report predicted ethnic food sales would continue to grow by 20 percent until 2014.

The report found that those with annual household incomes exceeding usd. 150,000, as well as those between the ages of 18 and 24, were most likely to have cooked ethnic food in the past month.

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2010-02-24 Feuding Kenyan Leaders Meet

Many Kenyans have asked why Mr. Kibaki reflexively reinstated the ministers whose departments had become incubators of graft. One interpretation is that he wanted to humiliate Mr. Odinga and show that, despite the facade of a coalition government, the president still holds all the power. Political analysts say that Mr. Kibaki also wanted to cozy up to the large ethnic voting bloc behind the agricultural minister, William Ruto.

Much of the governmental in-fighting goes back to the violent days in 2007 and early 2008 when Kenya violently split along ethnic lines after the flawed election. Kenyan human rights groups have said that Mr. Ruto is suspected of orchestrating some of the bloodshed by inciting members of his ethnic group to kill members of the presidents ethnic group. The

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President Mwai Kibaki and the prime minister, Raila Odinga, had been at a political impasse after wrangling over the suspension of the ministers of agriculture and education for alleged corruption. - Kibaki Mwai Odinga Raila Kenya Politics and Government

2010-02-23 Asia Times Online :: Southeast Asia news and business from Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam

While human-rights and humanitarian groups put the present number of registered and unregistered Rohingya in Bangladesh at around 220,000, Dhaka now claims there are some 400,000. Of those, only 28,000 are officially registered refugees living in three officially designated camps and receiving humanitarian aid. The rest live either scattered among the local population or in makeshift camps near the official ones, but without basic sanitation, water, electricity or aid supplies such as food and medicine.

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2010-02-22 UN envoy leaves Burma with very modest gains / The Christian Science Monitor

In addition, Quintana also tried to shine a spotlight on human rights in Burmas ethnic minority areas, which have been largely overshadowed by the international focus on Suu Kyi. He traveled to Rakhine in western Burma to investigate the treatment of detainees held there, including minorities. Rakhine is home to the Rohingya, a Muslim minority, whom Burma doesnt recognize as citizens, leaving them effectively stateless.

On Thursday, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders, said thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh faced sickness and even starvation after being driven out of their homes in recent months. Most have moved to slums on the outskirts of UN-run refugee camps but arent eligible for food aid and run the risk of being forced back to Burma, the medical charity said.

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Tomas Ojea Quintana pushed for greater human rights, but said he deeply regretted not being allowed to see the world-famous detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, during his five-day visit, which ended Friday.