Northeastern
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Nowhere is this more evident than with the countries surrounding the South China Sea, the lifeblood of maritime Southeast Asia and of China’s
northeastern
neighbors, Korea and Japan.
And the junta’s generals began providing safe havens and arms to a motley assortment of anti-India rebels that would wreak havoc in the country’s
Northeastern
states and retreat to sanctuaries in newly renamed Myanmar.
Four of India’s politically sensitive
Northeastern
states have international borders with Myanmar.
Moreover, it will be years before any oil actually begins to flow from the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and how much shale oil and gas actually exists in
northeastern
Mexico is unknown.
Indeed, it was just before President Hu Jintao’s 2006 visit that China resurrected its claim to India’s large
northeastern
state of Arunachal Pradesh.
When the textile and shoe industries in America’s
northeastern
states died, workers moved to the West, where new industries were growing.
One case concerns 18 Roma children from the
northeastern
city of Ostrava in the Czech Republic who were placed in “special” schools for those deemed mentally deficient, where they receive a markedly inferior education.
From Turkey’s perspective, a confederation of Syria’s
northeastern
region with the KRG might be favorable to continuing domestic Kurdish unrest, much less rule by the anti-Turkish Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) along its border with Syria.
Saving Nigeria’s Stolen FutureLONDON – The fate of almost 280 Nigerian girls abducted a month ago by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram from their school in
northeastern
Borno State hangs in the balance.
The August 2003 blackout in the
northeastern
US revealed that more than a dozen nuclear reactors in the US and Canada were not properly maintaining backup diesel generators.
Soon, three years will have passed since the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami struck
northeastern
Japan on March 11, 2011, causing the failure of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
For Syria’s Kurds, the struggle against more than four decades of the Assad family’s Ba’athist dictatorship became particularly harsh after 2004, when security forces killed dozens of unarmed protesters in the
northeastern
town of Qamishli.
Were the US and its allies to attack the North, China – whose alliance with the country dates back to the Korean War – would probably jump to its
northeastern
neighbors’ defense.
By contrast, in the
northeastern
state of Manipur, Congress was expected to yield ground to critics of its long-serving chief minister, Okram Ibobi Singh, who instead pulled off an overwhelming victory.
Since Kenya’s army invaded its
northeastern
neighbor two years ago, the government has told Kenyans that they were going to war against al-Shabaab.
Last November, a Roma couple was killed in
northeastern
Hungary.
A third, Tibet 5100, is so named because it is bottled at a 5,100-meter-high glacial spring in the Nyenchen Tanglha range that feeds the Yarlung Tsangpo (or Brahmaputra River) – the lifeblood of
northeastern
India and Bangladesh.
Nigeria’s Poverty-Powered InsurgencyLAGOS – Nigerian security forces recently razed a
northeastern
fishing village, leaving almost 200 people dead and destroying some 2,000 homes, in order to root out just a few members of the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram.
Thus we see a relatively poor Hausa-Muslim majority population in northern Nigeria and a relatively rich Ibo-Christian majority population in oil-rich southeastern Nigeria; a relatively rich Christian majority population in central Kenya and a relatively poor Muslim majority population on the coast and in the
northeastern
provinces; and so on.
The subsidiary nature of the US combat-support role in Africa dictates that the US forego predominance in political and military decision-making concerning alliance operations, relinquishing out-front leadership in Africa (apart from the
northeastern
part of the continent).
Just as tuberculosis infects a body already compromised by HIV, extremism thrives under the right conditions, such as those created by the conflict in Somalia, or the political fragility and social neglect in
northeastern
Nigeria, where many interviewees cited scarce access to both religious and secular education.
There has been much complaining from foreign observers, aid teams, reporters, and government spokesmen about the lack of clarity, not to mention reliability, of official Japanese statements about the various disasters following the massive earthquake that struck
northeastern
Japan on March 11.
In the last five years, the country’s
northeastern
region – once a hub of basic industries like oil and steel – has been facing accelerating decline, as have the rich mineral resource centers in places like Hebei and Inner Mongolia.
An estimated 1.5 million people have been displaced in the
northeastern
states of Yobe, Borno, and Adamawa, and the violence has spilled over into neighboring Niger and Chad.
Finer particles became airborne and caused environmental and health problems across
northeastern
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and southwestern Iraq.
In China, it is the
northeastern
region that is being hit hardest by job losses, owing to overcapacity and the closure of polluting and loss-making heavy industries.
In the
northeastern
Brazilian state of Pernambuco, a group of fishing families had lived since 1914 on islands in the Sirinhaém River estuary.
Hebei and three other
northeastern
provinces are feeling the effects of recession, but the heavy-industry economies of Tianjin, Shandong, and Jiangsu are booming.
While migrants to the Indian state of West Bengal assimilated easily among their fellow Bengalis, those who settled in the
northeastern
state of Assam faced greater challenges, owing to linguistic, cultural, and religious differences with the majority of their new neighbors.
The agendas of both parties are, however, different: while Syria focuses on the symbolic meaning of the return of the Golan, Israel wants specific, entrenched guarantees regarding the security of its
northeastern
border, as well as an end to Syrian-supported Hizbullah incursions from Lebanon – a country that is virtually a Syrian protectorate.
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