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Yungang grottoes in urgent need of attention

Xinhua 

Agencies

The Yungang Grottoes, one of the three largest major cave complexes in China, is facing a life or death situation, with humans as the judges deciding its fate.

The legal information website efaw.cn reported that Yungang Grottoes, located on the southern foot of Wuzhou Hill, 16 kilometers west of Datong in Shanxi province, has been severely damaged by human activities and natural influences.

 

 

Stumped vision

Hindustan Times 

Dodgy decisions, charges of racism…cricket can do with some transparency writes Soumya Bhattacharya

OKAY, INDIA was robbed. Appalling umpiring did India in. Okay, the three-Test ban on Harbhajan Singh was not merely harsh, it was terribly unfair. Undoubtedly we Indians are all agreed on that.

But you know what? Most Australians, at least the rational, liberal members of the intelligentsia that I know, are agreed on that too. Some of them, like Peter Roebuck and Greg Baum, have written about it. Fine. So far, there is perfect unanimity. Now wait a minute. We may not have had time to pause and think about this in the swirl of events since Harbhajan was accused of making a racist remark to Andrew Symonds on Friday, but two things – especially after the defeat in the Sydney Test on Sunday – have somehow been conflated in the public imagination: the business of shocking umpiring and the business of racism. It’s somehow turned into a Them versus Us thing. It isn’t that at all.