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Afghan Youths Seek a New Life in Europe

Published on September 8, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

Caroline Brothers of The New York Times reports:

On the edges of a Salvation Army soup line in Paris, a soft-spoken Afghan boy told the story recently of how he ended up in Europe, alone.

The boy, who said he was 15 but looked younger, recounted how his family left Afghanistan after his mother lost her leg in an explosion in 2004. They spent three years in Iran, where he went to school for the first time, learning English and discovering the Internet. After his father suffered a back injury that made working difficult, the boy, who declined to give his name, headed west. More…

Min Gong of Xiamen University to speak at Global Studies Conference

Published on August 26, 2009 in Conference. 0 Comments

Min Gong, Xiamen University, Xiamen, People’s Republic of China
www.GlobalStudiesConference.com

Min Gong is a Professor of Economics and the Vice Director of the Center for Macroeconomic Research at Xiamen University, Fujian. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Fudan University, Shanghai, served as a visiting scholar at the Institution for Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, and as a Freeman Fellow at the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illiois at Urbana-Champaign. More…