The economic involvement of China in Afghanistan

“In all the millions of square kilometres of print devoted to Afghanistan over the past few decades, one word - China - has appeared very seldom.”

However, over the next few years that could change, because “booming, ever-growing China is in the early stages of some massive investments in the troubled nation”.

Anthony Paul reports in “Dragon descends on Afghanistan” for China Elections and Governance:
http://en.chinaelections.org/newsinfo.asp?newsid=16377

Returnees in Afghanistan may become refugees again

“The worsening security situation, unemployment, the food crisis, drought, shelter problems and lack of socio-economic opportunities may force some Afghans who have returned to their country in the past six years to cross international borders again in search of a better life, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Refugees and Repartition (MoRR) warned.”

IRIN is reporting:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=78822

Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and media

It is almost one year ago Ira Chernus, professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, wrote an article for Global Research about civilian deaths in Afghanistan.

“Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan: No Coincidence”, and the reactions in the media. At this time, the article of Chernus is as actually as it was one year ago, or even more?

On Global Research
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6865

Mass prison break from the jail in Kandahar in South-Afghanistan

Bill Van Auken wrote an article for the WSWS about the prisoners who escaped from the prison in the city Kandahar: “Afghanistan: Mass prison break underscores crisis of US-backed regime."

“Large numbers of US-led NATO troops together with Afghan puppet forces continued a largely fruitless search over the weekend for more than 1,000 prisoners who escaped from a fortress-like jail in the southern city of Kandahar.”
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jun2008/afgh-j16.shtml