A Dubai-based real estate developer has announced to create, own and operate a 10.5-hectare ultra luxury resort on a man-made island, 14 km from the Dubai coastline. To be built at a cost of $350 million, the proposed World Island Resort, the details of which was announced here on Monday, will be located on the […]
Succour For Leather Industry.
Sino-oversea Leather Products, a Chinese company, has signed an agreement with Ethiopia’s Oromia Regional State Investment Commission, ORSIC, enabling it take 50,000 square metres of land from the region and build four leather product factories. The factories are set to be built around Sululta town. According to the agreement, one of the factories to be […]
Seselj Trial Hears of Mostar Shootings
Bosniak survivor describes ordeal at the hands of Serb forces in the summer of 1992. By Simon Jennings in The Hague A Bosniak imprisoned after surviving a massacre near the town of Mostar in June 1992 told judges this week how he was allowed water only once in four days and ate one meal in […]
Turning Afghan Heroin in Kalashnikovs
Remote Afghan province is home to major trading post for heroin destined for Europe and arms for Taleban and other militants. By Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi in Badakhshan The bazaar sits on a small island in the river Panj, a narrow expanse of shallow but fast-flowing water that is all that separates the Badakhshan region of […]
Helmand Farmers Fight to Defend Opium Crop
By Mohammad Ilyas Dayee in Helmand Until recently, the Marja area of Helmand province, close to the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, enjoyed relative peace. The main occupation here is farming, albeit with a specific twist – opium poppies take up almost all the arable land. The calm ended last month when the Afghan government decided […]
Helmand Gripped by Opium Harvest
By Matiullah Minapal and Aziz Ahmad Tassal in Helmand (ARR No. 288, 09-Apr-08) The distinctive red, white, and pink poppy flowers have all but gone from the fields in Helmand province, leaving in their place the bare pods containing valuable opium paste. With harvest season, or “nish”, in full swing, the schools are empty, the […]
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