2014-11-20 3:32:19 am by OhBeeeOne in category General

The Tupolev 154 is a Soviet-era workhorse that challenged the sufferance of Aeroflot’s long-haul passengers more than it did their pockets. There are people of a certain age who will recall the Tupolev 154 with the kind of fondness more usually consequent to the magical workings of nostalgia. With the Ilyushin 62, it formed the backbone of Aeroflot and other East European airline fleets...

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2014-11-20 3:22:12 am by OhBeeeOne in category General

Predicting the future is, at best, a hazardous undertaking. But if there is one certainty, it is that international development cooperation must be inspirationally innovative if it is to be effective in achieving the goal of a juster, more equitable world. Look around and you will see unprecedented transformation. Exponential changes abound in shifts in the centres of political and economic...

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2014-11-20 3:11:06 am by OhBeeeOne in category General

The border itself is not physically demarcated, except at a limited number of official crossing points that are patrolled and manned by the Nepali and Indian armies. Crossing the border for Nepali and Indian people is unimpeded by formality, and people cross daily in their hundreds and thousands on foot or by bus, car, motorbike, cycle, cycle-rickshaw, auto-rickshaw, horse and cart, donkey and...

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