For many Chinese, Africa represents a land of opportunity, but some Africans are wary that these migrants might be the forerunners of Chinese economic imperialism
By HOWARD W. FRENCH and LYDIA POLGREEN
When Yang Jie left home at 18, he was doing what people from China's hardscrabble Fujian Province have done for generations: emigrating in search of a better living overseas.

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Christiane Amanpour is reputedly the world's highest-paid reporter. She reveals the inside track on filing from war zones
By Julie Ferry
Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent - and a woman said to be the world's highest-paid reporter - greets me at the network's London office with a businesslike handshake and apologies for having to eat lunch through the interview. We are here to talk about Amanpour's new documentary series God's Warriors. In the programs, which took seven months to make, she reports on the growing overlap between religious fervor and politics and profiles those within Christianity, Islam, and Judaism who view themselves as part of the battle for cultural supremacy and political power.

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After increased regulation of airsoft guns in Japan, the sport's epicenter appears to be migrating to Taiwan, where it's easy to find a team and start shooting
By Ron Brownlow
Mike Chen (陳大宇) has a thing for World War II. He often dons the light gray uniform of the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) famous Big Knife Troop (大刀隊) and reenacts anti-Japanese campaigns as a member of the Fukuo Association (復國會). Last weekend, he paid NT$100 and appeared in full regalia at the 2007 Taipei Hooha Military Toys Show (台北武哈祭冬季展), a three-day trade fair that occupied the third floor of the Taipei Youth Activity Center like a military invasion.

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As India celebrates 60 years of independence, `Vishnu's Crowded Temple' is a history that examines the forces new driving this economic powerhouse
By Soumya Bhattacharya
Stereotypes about India not so much abound as keep multiplying. In popular imagination, India has gone, over time, from being the land of exoticism and mysticism to the back office of the world to - most recently - the rising economic superpower whose dizzying rate of growth is second only to China's and which will, along with China, redraw the geopolitical map of the world by the middle of the 21st century.

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Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed over 80 years ago, but questions about their guilt and the fairness of their trials remain
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Precisely 80 years on, the Sacco-Vanzetti case still resonates like a mournful chord. Almost instantly elevated to the status of myth, the trial and execution of the anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti remains one of the blackest pages in the American national story, a cautionary tale of lethal passions fueled by political fear and ethnic prejudice.

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