ethnic tensions

Of course, the city was not always a happy mosaic of the world, and ethnic tensions abounded, as did crime and poverty.

This diversity discourages any real ethnic tensions and while conflict might rage further north in Iraq, Dubai so far has been trouble free.

China's constitution guarantees ethnic minorities equal rights and limited autonomy. However, ethnic tensions run deep.

In Indonesia, both Portuguese Catholics and Dutch Protestant clergy left enough converts to figure in ethnic tensions today.

In Malaysia, the ruling coalition emerged bruised from elections this year that underlined serious ethnic tensions.

Neighbouring governments this time must also do more to dampen sectarian and ethnic tensions.

U. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon leaves Friday for Nairobi to join efforts to calm Kenya's ethnic tensions.

Third, India has managed religious and ethnic tensions pretty well, aside from the disgraceful anti-Muslim pogroms in Gujarat in 2002.

Growing protests and unrests are hitting China in recentmonths, as social discontent and ethnic tensions boil over.

After his death in 1980, simmering ethnic tensions resurfaced, eventually leading to the wars in the Balkan states.

Ethnic tensions among some of the Chinese minorities have only worsened the situation.

There are fears that the refugees might ignite long-simmering ethnic tensions.

Its crude methods of doing so often heighten ethnic tensions.

More seriously, Ms Boddy explores ethnic tensions in the sport, especially those between whites and blacks in America.

An interview with Jiang Zhaoyong, a current affairs commentator based in Beijing, sheds some light on Han-Uighur ethnic tensions