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China Court Overturns Death Penalty for Wu Ying in Fraud Case
Posted: April 20th, 2012, 3:01pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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The Chinese tycoon’s conviction ignited an outcry in China, especially on the Internet, and strengthened public criticism of the death sentence.
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Laiza Journal: Myanmar’s Guerrilla Golfers, Going a Few Rounds
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 1:01am EST by By EDWARD WONG
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The six-hole golf course in rebel territory in Kachin State may be among the world’s unlikeliest, but it is open, even in wartime.
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Dumhpawng Kawng Journal: Burmese Civil War Turns Grimmer for Kachin Guerrilla
Posted: January 30th, 2012, 11:25pm EST by By EDWARD WONG
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Maj. Robin Maran, a commander for the ethnic Kachin minority, is facing a stronger and fiercer Burmese Army as a civil war has resumed.
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Culture and Control: Censors Pull Reins as China TV, Chasing Profit, Gets Racy
Posted: January 1st, 2012, 7:57am EST by By EDWARD WONG
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A contestant left the stage after failing to win a date on the popular Chinese television program "If You Are the One." The show has been toned down.For decades, China’s Communist Party has pushed television networks here to embrace the market, but conservative cadres have grown increasingly fearful of the kinds of programs that court audiences.
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Three Advocates for Chinese Village Are Released
Posted: December 27th, 2011, 9:05am EST by By EDWARD WONG
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Three village advocates who had been detained by the police during a confrontation in the village of Wukan in south China have been freed, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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China and Japan Agree to New Currency Dealings
Posted: December 26th, 2011, 8:37pm EST by By EDWARD WONG
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China and Japan have agreed to start direct trading of their currencies, a move among several that emerged from Japan’s prime minister’s visit to China on Monday.
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China and Japan Agree to New Currency Dealings
Posted: December 26th, 2011, 8:37pm EST by By EDWARD WONG
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China and Japan have agreed to start direct trading of their currencies, a move among several that emerged from Japan’s prime minister’s visit to China on Monday.
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Beijing Journal: Anger Grows Over Air Pollution in Beijing
Posted: December 7th, 2011, 5:13am EST by By EDWARD WONG
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The disruptions the haze causes to daily life are raising questions about the economic cost, and the government’s ability to ensure the safety of the population.
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Biden Opens Talks in China
Posted: August 18th, 2011, 8:40am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived in China and began talks with Vice President Xi Jinping of China that will focus on the global economy, trade and currency.
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An Online Scandal Underscores Chinese Distrust of State Charities
Posted: July 3rd, 2011, 8:53pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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China’s control of charity work has created suspicion that donations could end up going to a corrupt organization.
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An Online Scandal Underscores Chinese Distrust of State Charities
Posted: July 3rd, 2011, 8:53pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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China’s control of charity work has created suspicion that donations could end up going to a corrupt organization.
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China Quietly Extends Its Footprints Deep Into Central Asia
Posted: January 3rd, 2011, 12:40am EST by By EDWARD WONG
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As China seizes the spotlight in East and Southeast Asia, it is also making its presence felt on its western flank, once primarily Russia’s domain.
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China Leader Says Anti-Inflation Measures Needed
Posted: December 18th, 2010, 1:20am EST by By EDWARD WONG
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The comments from Li Keqiang, vice premier of China, seemed to highlight that China is increasingly concerned about resentment over rising living costs.
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China’s Answer to Nobel Mystifies Its Winner
Posted: December 8th, 2010, 7:30pm EST by By EDWARD WONG
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The office of the Taiwanese politician who won China’s newly created Confucius Peace Prize said “we know nothing about it.”
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China to Tighten Monetary Policy
Posted: December 4th, 2010, 1:30am EST by By EDWARD WONG
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China says it needs to adjust monetary policy to slow growth, meaning the renminbi could appreciate somewhat.
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News Analysis: Nobel Prize Is Seen as Rebuke to China
Posted: October 9th, 2010, 1:41am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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The award was a sharp rejoinder to China’s philosophy that freedoms are indigenous to the West.
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China Denies Exploiting Rare Earths
Posted: October 8th, 2010, 7:10am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Prime Minister Wen Jiabao denied imposing bans on exports of industrial minerals for political purposes.
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Civil Suit Hearing Held in China’s Milk Scandal
Posted: November 28th, 2009, 3:47pm EST by By EDWARD WONG
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The hearing was for the first civil suit to be heard in court involving parents suing a dairy company and a supermarket over tainted milk.
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China’s Tough Flu Measures Appear to Be Effective
Posted: November 12th, 2009, 2:44am EST by By EDWARD WONG
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Quarantines of foreign visitors and other actions brought criticism abroad, but health officials say the spread of H1N1 may have been slowed.
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World Briefing | Asia: Taiwan: Swine Flu Vaccination Program Begins
Posted: November 6th, 2009, 9:51pm EST by By EDWARD WONG
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The Taiwanese government announced that by starting vaccinations against the H1N1 virus this week, it had begun the largest immunization program in Taiwan’s history.
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Tibetan Area a Flashpoint for China-India Tensions
Posted: September 3rd, 2009, 9:34pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Relations between China and India have soured over a belligerent dispute about a patch of border land that has a Tibetan cultural heritage.
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China Opens Trial of Quake Critic
Posted: August 5th, 2009, 6:47pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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The defendant is a well-known civil rights campaigner who tried to help bereaved fathers push for investigations after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
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Rumbles on the Rim of China’s Empire
Posted: July 12th, 2009, 12:40pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Official pronouncements hung torn on a shuttered store in Urumqi.The history of China’s Xinjiang Province sheds light on the recent ethnic violence there.
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China Official Threatens Death Penalty After Riots
Posted: July 8th, 2009, 10:31am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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President Hu Jintao cut short his trip to the G-8 summit on Wednesday as the party boss in China’s Xinjiang Province issued a threat after three days of ethnic violence.
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China Orders Patches to Planned Web Filter
Posted: June 15th, 2009, 7:12am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Efforts to improve a censorship application suggest that the government still supports its use.
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Pingyao Journal: Ghosts of a Faded Gilded Age Haunt a 19th-Century Chinese Banking Hub
Posted: March 18th, 2009, 1:32am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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With the global economy reeling from the banking crisis, and as the explosive economic growth of China begins to slow, the rise and fall of Pingyao could be read as a cautionary tale.
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Tibetans Greet New Year in Opposition
Posted: February 26th, 2009, 1:53am EST by By EDWARD WONG
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Tibetans are marking the normally joyous Losar holiday with an informal boycott and vigils. -
Even College-Educated Chinese Feel Job Pinch
Posted: January 24th, 2009, 3:27pm EST by By EDWARD WONG
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Anxiety is rippling through a generation of Chinese who had grown up thinking that prosperity was guaranteed.
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China Sees Separatist Threats
Posted: January 20th, 2009, 3:38pm EST by By EDWARD WONG
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China said that it faced threats from several independence movements and that U.S. arms sales to Taiwan jeopardized Asia’s stability.
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First Settlement in Chinese Milk Case
Posted: January 16th, 2009, 1:28pm EST by By EDWARD WONG
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The parents of a baby who died from drinking tainted milk formula have accepted $29,200 from the dairy company at the center of a nationwide scandal.
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At Exile Meeting, Tibetans Debate Independence
Posted: November 21st, 2008, 1:28pm EST by By EDWARD WONG
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Long associated with the Dalai Lama and his “middle way,” the exile movement has reached a crossroads.
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Wary of Islam, China Tightens a Vise of Rules
Posted: October 18th, 2008, 3:17pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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China places intricate restrictions on Muslims in a vast autonomous region in an effort to control Islam’s spread.
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Courts Compound Pain of China’s Tainted Milk
Posted: October 17th, 2008, 2:46am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Tainted infant formula is the latest in a long string of food and drug safety problems that have exposed corruption among China’s regulators.
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China May Let Peasants Sell Rights to Farmland
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 2:36am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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The shift could draw hundreds of millions of farmers more firmly into China’s city-centered market economy.
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Journeys | Tamil Nadu, India: Temples Where Gods Come to Life
Posted: September 19th, 2008, 12:33pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Few things in India express the continuous presence of the gods better than the ancient, massive temple complexes of Tamil Nadu.
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China Defends Its Reviled Soccer Team
Posted: August 29th, 2008, 2:25am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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The government is taking a step to shore up the reputation of that most dubious of national sports icons: the men’s soccer team.
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A New Cast of Olympic Heroes for China
Posted: August 25th, 2008, 5:17am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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With a haul of 51 gold medals, China has its choice of Olympic celebrities to help fill the void left by the world-class hurdler Liu Xiang, who dropped out of competition because of an injury.
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The World: The Games Began. Hearts Swelled.
Posted: August 16th, 2008, 11:59pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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My dual role: Cover the story and gather souvenirs for my family.
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Attack in West China Kills 3 Security Officers
Posted: August 13th, 2008, 1:45am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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The attack is the third in nine days against Chinese security forces in the autonomous region of Xinjiang.
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Getting in Shape for Games, China Strengthens Ties With Neighbors
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 7:44am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Improved relations with Taiwan and Japan have helped showcase China’s frequent claims to be a new kind of global power that intends to rise on the world stage.
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Getting in Shape for Games, China Strengthens Ties With Neighbors
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 7:44am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Improved relations with Taiwan and Japan have helped showcase China’s frequent claims to be a new kind of global power that intends to rise on the world stage.
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China Presses Grieving Parents to Take Hush Money on Quake
Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 11:40pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Local governments in Sichuan Province have begun a coordinated campaign to buy the silence of angry parents whose children died during the May earthquake.
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Survivors in China Sift Rubble for the Past
Posted: June 7th, 2008, 11:40pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Residents seek anything of value that will allow them to piece together some of what was snatched by the quake.
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Chinese Police Confront Grieving Parents
Posted: June 3rd, 2008, 5:15pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Police dragged several parents away from a protest over poorly constructed schools that collapsed.
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Chinese Flee Flood Threat Due to Quake
Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:34pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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Thousands of earthquake survivors fled camps and villages after warnings that several lakes and rivers were getting dangerously close to overflowing.
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Dams Reported Damaged as Soldiers Reach Quake’s Center
Posted: May 14th, 2008, 7:51pm EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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The Chinese government said that nearly 400 dams suffered damage and the death toll estimate was raised to 15,000.
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China Petrochemical Project Opposed
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 11:09am EDT by By EDWARD WONG
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It was the latest in a series of rare but increasingly ambitious protests against government-backed industrial projects on environmental and health grounds.