[NEWS] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Al Jazeera notes India's concern about the possible domination of BRICS institutions by China, and looks at controversies surrounding gender in the French education system.


• BusinessWeek notes that some Chinese have taken to growing their own food in their apartments to avoid contaminated produce, and comments on the troubles of hookah bars in Russia.


• CBC notes problems for Canadian pot tourists in the United States.


• The Economist observes that relations between China and Vietnam are quite poor.


• Foreign Policy comments on African skepticism about free trade agreements with rich countries and analyses the spectre of "Novorossiya" in Ukraine.


• MacLean's reports how seven different foriegn newspapers covered Canadian confederation in 1867.


• National Geographic writes about the Panana Canal's Lake Gatun.


• The New Yorker argues that Iraq and Syria each have long histories.


• Open Democracy comments on China's speculative and opportunistic responses to the Crimean crisis and observes that Uzbekistan's government prefers to stay out of regional trade agreements so to strengthen its government.


• Transitions Online u>compares corruption in Bulgaria to that of Italy and notes the rebirth of the wine industry in Kazakhstan.


• Wired examines the causes of the Ebola outbreak, looks at analyses of the networked structure of Jewish religious texts, and examines vintage space station designs.