Mr. Malouf, 53 years old, is no stranger to Petersham Nurseries, having cooked master classes there in the past when launching his acclaimed cooking-cum-travel books on Middle Eastern cuisine, which he co-authored with his former wife, Lucy Malouf.

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Just as the German Jews of New York feared the influx of their co-religionists from eastern Europe, so established blacks felt their status was threatened by the arrival of unsophisticated rural folk with slow syrupy accents.

ECONOMIST: Black migration in America

NATO, especially when there are other organisations that can serve as umbrellas for building the bridges and co-operative arrangements in Eastern Europe that Mrs Albright writes of.

ECONOMIST: No to NATO expansion

With many residents still accustomed to shopping in small local shops, demand isn't yet keeping up with supply at the new, big malls, according to information supplied to Eastern Connecticut State by Steven Beesley, co-founder of the Institute of Shopping Centre Management in Hong Kong.

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Having studied for five years under top Chinese professors, he now co-writes learned papers on Eastern medicine in Mandarin, drawing on a deep knowledge of ancient Chinese philosophy and cosmology.

ECONOMIST: The Greeks and the Chinese

It added that Lithuania had been identified by the police as a source location for trafficked victims in the UK, while Italy is both a destination country for trafficking victims and a transit country for co-ordination and onward trafficking of victims from Eastern Europe and Africa.

BBC: Scheme to tackle human trafficking in London launched

Last week Britain's Eastern Energy withdrew from the bidding for a regional utility after its German co-bidder dropped out.

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The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe is sending 250 monitors, 100 to Eastern Slavonia alone, to encourage Croatia to treat its minorities well.

ECONOMIST: Eastern Slavonia