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By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Correpondent
BEIJING – Just how far behind I am in the race to get into the Chinese property market was made starkly clear to me recently. My cleaning lady – who earns about $90 a month for each of the handful of households she cleans (considered a high rate for Beijing) – [...]

Despite being surrounded by water, thousands of children die every year in Bangladesh because many don’t know how to swim. But a new project is trying to reverse that. NBC News’ Ian Williams reports.

VIDEO: Teaching young Bangladeshis to swim  …(read more)

By NBC News’ Ed Flanagan
HONG KONG –If you aren’t a fan of rugby yet, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge has a message for you: It’s coming, and in a format which might finally engage an elusive American audience.

Bobby Yip / Reuters

New Zealand’s Tim Mikkelson falls to the ground after failing to tackle [...]

TEL AVIV — Ahmed Khatib was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Jenin in 2005, when they mistook his toy gun for a real weapon. Practically the whole town of Jenin attended Ahmed’s funeral and the incident was major news in Israel.
But his father was determined to make sure something positive came out of [...]

By NBC News’ John Yang and Kiko Itasaka
KABUL — President Obama came to Kabul to deliver a stern message to Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, and, according to one close Karzai observer, it landed.
Haroun Mir, head of the Center for Research Policy Studies in Kabul, told NBC News that when Obama and Karzai spoke to reporters [...]