Traveller's tales
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Afghan refugees are coming home by the thousands each day from camps inside Pakistan and Iran. The estimated 5.5 million Afghans who streamed out of the country during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan are expected to be back inside their country by the end of 1993. The refugees lived through tough times in the Pakistani and Iranian camps. The conflict between the different rival mujahideen groups in their country does not bode well for refugees who want to come home.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1992
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Traveller's tales
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Indians have a long history of drinking habits, as millions of them are descended from age-old castes of toddy tappers and home brewers. The government, which inherited from the British a system of officially controlled, revenue-generating liquor sales, is dependent on liquor taxes. Intellectuals frown on intoxication as a foreign influence, while legislators discourage drinking by legislative measures to no avail, as the practice is culturally ingrained.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1992
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Traveller's tales
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The lifting of apartheid laws in South Africa has resulted in social permissiveness. The freer climate has exposed the haves to the aspirations of the have-nots, resulting in an increasing number of crimes against life and property. Both Whites and Indians are targets of the rising wave of violence, committed mostly by blacks.
Publication Name: Far Eastern Economic Review
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0014-7591
Year: 1992
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