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China’s President Xi Jinping announced last November that China will promote Asia’s connectivity by creating a $40 billion USD fund for the 21 st Century Maritime Silk Road. This is part of the now called Chinese Dream, which according to President Xi Jinping consists on “ the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation ”. [1] And according to SCMP, the “New Silk Road Economic Belt” and the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” will build roads, ports, airports and railways across Central and South Asia”. [2] President Xi Jinping was also quoted saying that “ the Silk Road Fund will be open and welcome investors from Asia and beyond to actively take part in the project ”. [3] It is therefore evident that this investment is not only a business opportunity for many regional and global companies, but also a political opportunity of regional cooperation for the countries of Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, East Africa and Middle East. This is a project that might have a positive gl...

Anteontem, Narendra Modi começou uma campanha para modernizar o sistema sanitário na Índia. Foi a varrer as ruas de Nova Deli que o Primeiro-Ministro passou a mensagem. Primeiro-Ministro Modi a limpar as ruas da capital Indiana Depois de ter lançado a campanha Make in India , convidando Indianos e Estrangeiros a investir na Índia, Narendra Modi lan ça agor a a campanha My Clean India  com uma vassoura nas m ãos. A Índia enfrenta assim a poluição urbana e os conhecidos atrasos sanitários, desagradáveis pelo cheiro mas sobretudo graves pela transmissão de doenças. Um relatório das Nações Unidas em Maio indicava que cerca de metade dos Indianos defeca  na rua, levando à propagação de doenças como a cólera, diarreia, disenteria, hepatite A e tifóide. Pegar na vassoura e dar o exemplo foi sem dúvida a melhor forma de passar a mensagem e inspirar outros a fazer o mesmo. ------- Artigos relacionados: grandes fotografias políticas (I) grandes fotografias...

International Crimes Tribunal of Dhaka Yesterday, one of the worse criminals of the XXI century was condemned to life imprisonment. His name is Delwar Hossain Sayedee , he is 74 years old and he was one of the leaders of the extremist party Jamaat-e-Islami in Bangladesh. During the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, he committed brutal crimes against humanity. Being now accused of at least 20 crimes, the case went to Supreme Court and there he was proven guilty of:     torture a leader of the Awami League, Mr Nurul Islam, and arson attack on his house;     killing one and torching house in the village of Chitholia;     killing one and torching 25 houses in the village of Umedpur;     abduction and rape of 3 sisters of Parerhat Bazar;      forcing 100 to 150 Hindus to convert to Islam in Parerhat and other villages. Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a Razakar Besides that, he was accused of many other crimes, as killing m...