China Says It Built a Railway in Africa Out of Altruism, But It's More Strategic Than That
The first in a series of reports on a massive program of Chinese investment that is reshaping Africa.
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The first in a series of reports on a massive program of Chinese investment that is reshaping Africa.
Haiti's capital city doesn't have a sewer system. Instead, so-called nightsoil, or human excrement, is largely removed by hand by workers who toil at night under cover of darkness.
In part six, Javier Carrillo, Panama's general director for migration, says Cubans are welcome in the country but must follow legal procedures.
But the movement is up against the country’s powerful right-wing politics and institutional bias against Palestinians.
In part three, Panama's deputy minister of public security makes a final offer to Cuban migrants staying at a temporary shelter.
Frans Weewee and his family attempt to rebuild Brownsweg, Suriname, after the devastating effects of the Afobaka Dam.
Many different factors lead to civil war in Kachin State, Myanmar, but Doug Bock Clark finds popular opinion blames the Myitsone dam.
For the workers stranded in the labor camps, reforms and resolutions cannot come fast enough.
Like hundreds of Cuban migrants, this couple got stranded in Panama, but they still hope to eventually reach the United States.
In part three, dozens of undocumented Cuban migrants live in the shadows of Panama City, working without authorization.
The abandonment of South African gold mines—coupled with a high commodity price—has created a network of criminal syndicates operating in abandoned mines around Johannesburg.
At an encampment in the middle of nowhere, 124 Cuban migrants stranded in Panama await a decision on their fate.
Loretta Tofani's "American Imports, Chinese Deaths" series was awarded, among others, the 2007 Investigative Reporters and Editors' Gold Medal for medium sized newspapers.
Editor in Chief Lily Chen interviews Pulitzer Center grant-recipient Loretta Tofani about her "American Imports, Chinese Deaths" series. January 9, 2008, the Washington Observer (Mandarin Chinese), a World Security Institute publication. Lily interviews Loretta Tofani, an American journalist, about her call for people's attention to Chinese workers' benefits and rights.
Note: This article is in Mandarin Chinese.
Pulitzer Center grantee Loretta Tofani appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal to discuss her series about how Chinese workers lose their health and lives making cheap products for export to the U.S.