{"id":32,"date":"2013-06-30T14:13:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/?p=32"},"modified":"2013-06-30T14:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:16:22","slug":"neat-news-of-last-week-ending-june-29-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Neat news of last week ending June 29, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Turkey in Africa:<\/strong> The best local weekly in Ouaga \u00a0(Le Economiste du Faso) gives a real life example, printing a story of four Burkinabe that have arrived to study in the eastern city of Gaziantep Turkey.\u00a0 They began studying in a college that the Turks built in Ouaga.\u00a0\u00a0 Although Turkey\u2019s engagement in Africa started\u00a0in 1998, this took off since the AK Party came to power, showing this opening as a result of both Turkey\u2019s domestic transformation and change in the global political economy. \u00a0\u00a0Just from 2004 to 2009, Turkish exports tripled to Africa.\u00a0\u00a0 In Sudan, Turks were everywhere from building roads to cutting hair, including mine in Khartoum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Going to Varanasi to live?<\/strong> If you\u2019ve ever been to this most thought provoking place, you\u2019ll know that not a small number of residents are new and have come to die there.\u00a0 Widows make up a large number of these, living in small and austere quarters along the Ganges, hoping that they will make it to a better afterlife.\u00a0\u00a0 But what happens if one becomes a widow early in life?\u00a0 Radio Australia found a promising future with a NGO that has taken up helping widows find a new life.\u00a0 One 37 year-old widow tells her story I was married at 21 and widowed five years later, she says. As soon as my husband was cremated and the death rituals performed, my in-laws threw me out. I had nowhere to go. My life was over.\u201d\u00a0 She then lived hand-to-mouth for 15 years.\u00a0\u00a0 After getting help from the NGO Sulabh International, she now receives a small monthly stipend, and the widow\u2019s refuge for the first time boasts clean water and a steady electricity supply.\u00a0 She wants now to study to be a teacher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cashing in on immigrants, Russian style.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Russian weekly magazine New Times has a biting expose on how others are cashing in on the numerous central Asian migrants who work in Moscow.\u00a0 Anyone who has spent time there will know that the hard manual labor for public services, like street cleaning, is done by migrants in their characteristic orange jackets.\u00a0 The \u201cothers\u201d here are government officials who get payoffs from private companies that hire these migrants under their government contracts.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of these government officials get on payroll for the contractors that should be fined if they are using illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anything else other than Armstrong<\/strong>: \u00a0Le Monde printed an exclusive interview with Lance Armstrong, tiled \u201cLe Tour de France?\u00a0 It\u2019s impossible to win without doping.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Even with the excitement of the 100<sup>th<\/sup> run of the Tour, it can\u2019t escape anyone\u2019s mind that this is its first post-devastated-by-doping tour.\u00a0 In the interview, Armstrong in one instance says he\u2019s sorry, but the tone in nearly the entire interview is one of blaming other people and the sport itself:\u00a0 that doping has been and will always be part of the sport.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming next week:\u00a0 Can ASEAN catch a COC?\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 In lead up to the ASEAN summit in Brunei starting next week, \u00a0member countries are hoping to cement a binding code of conduct in the South China Sea with China.\u00a0\u00a0 Foreign Ministers from Russia, China, and the US will be at part of the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey in Africa: The best local weekly in Ouaga \u00a0(Le Economiste du Faso) gives a real life example, printing a story of four Burkinabe that have arrived to study in the eastern city of Gaziantep Turkey.\u00a0 They began studying in a college that the Turks built in Ouaga.\u00a0\u00a0 Although Turkey\u2019s engagement in Africa started\u00a0in 1998, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimparys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}