[NEWS] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Al Jazeera notes on the seemingly inevitable exodus of Muslims from the Central African Republic and reports on the wariness of Georgians versus Russia.


• Bloomberg and Bloomberg BusinessWeek touch upon a variety of interesting things: the leading role of Poland in supporting Ukraine; the introduction of egg-freezing technology to women who want to postpone parenthood; the interest of South Korea in getting more Chinese tourists to its Cheju island; the willingness of Russia to sell natural gas to China when faced with a shrinking European market; the desire of Japan and India to get closer to each other; and, the growth of second-tier cities in the United States.


• CBC touches upon dating and relationship issues for First Nations people regarding endogamy and exogamy, the business of Canadian fashion retailer Joe Fresh in Bangladesh, and the role of an Iraqi expatriate in Norway in creating that country's sovereign wealth fund.


• Eurasianet notes that, for their own reasons, Kazakhstan and Armenia are getting closer to Russia.


• The Inter Press Service writes about the failed US-backed ZunZuneo social network in Cuba, the Vietnamese-Filipino alliance against China, and the discomfort of rising powers with Russia's annexation of Crimea.


• IRIN News notes that asylum seekers in Indonesia once hoping to make it to Australia are now desperate for options, and comments on how Turkey is integrating its own program with its foreign policy.


• Open Democracy comments on Venetian separatism, Polish lessons for Ukraine, and the slow institutional progress of gay rights in Hong Kong.