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Melinda Liu
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Dec 19, 2008 05:34 AM
The 30th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's historic economic reforms is upon us. And the Chinese government is making a pretty big deal of it. Today the official state-run Xinhua news agency summarized a speech made by president Hu Jintao to mark the date....
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Melinda Liu
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Dec 6, 2008 05:46 PM
Today I and a couple Newsweek colleagues had lunch with Victor Yuan, whose Horizon consultancy conducts China-wide social surveys and market research on all kinds of topics. Our conversation turned to the growing number of factory bankruptcies and unpaid...
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Newsweek
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Dec 2, 2008 08:26 PM
As lay-offs keep mounting, financial journalist Fergus Naughton reports on why weak implementation and enforcement of China's labor and bankruptcy laws are adding to workers' jitters: The latest rash of factory closures and worker lay-offs may prove a...
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Melinda Liu
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Dec 1, 2008 07:24 AM
Crooked cadres who take the money and run are not new in China. But as the economy slumps, grassroots resentment against official corruption seems to be growing. In particular Chinese Netizens are buzzing about “naked officials” (or luo ti zuo guan ,...
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Newsweek
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Nov 28, 2008 09:13 PM
In the midst of a global downturn, Shanghai continues to reach for the sky. Duncan Hewitt reports on the city's building binge: China’s attempts to defy the global financial and economic crisis by pushing through a raft of huge infrastructure projects...
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Melinda Liu
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Nov 24, 2008 09:48 AM
Could Beijing become involved in Afghanistan? Most Sinologists would say: Naaah. But recently British Prime Minister Gordon Brown raised eyebrows when asked in a press conference if "Chinese soldiers” should assist the NATO-led 41-nation military effort...
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Jonathan Ansfield
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Nov 23, 2008 09:27 PM
I'm American, my wife Amy Chinese. But I often joke that our personal financing models are mirror opposites of our homelands'. She’s the free-market bull, an entrepreneurial force of nature, ever reinventing herself, chasing her dreams, casting for fresh...
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Newsweek
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Nov 21, 2008 12:13 PM
Fergus Naughton reports on worsening lay-offs in China's export-dependent industries: Latest figures released by China’s labor ministry show unemployment to be higher than feared -- and underscore governmental fears over the potential repercussions on...
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Newsweek
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Nov 20, 2008 03:11 PM
Newsweek's Sudip Mazumdar reports on the special conference of Tibetan exiles in Dharamsala -- and what it may mean for the future: It was a bright, cool morning Monday when top Tibetan leaders and intellectuals from all over the world began a six-day...
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Manuela Zoninsein
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Nov 19, 2008 11:20 PM
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s week of travel in the New World began with a stop in Washington, D.C. last Saturday, December 15, during an emergency G-20 meeting. Hu’s jaunt signals several firsts, including the inaugural visit conducted by a Chinese president...
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Newsweek
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Nov 18, 2008 06:12 PM
The global economic slowdown is being felt at the grassroots in China. A Chinese yuppie using the penname Ouyang reports on how he felt after suddenly finding himself out of work: The owner of the Malatang spicy kebab stand told me he’s actually not very...
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Melinda Liu
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Nov 16, 2008 11:32 AM
Beijing is pumping more than half a trillion dollars into the Chinese economy in order to stave off unrest. It has good reason to worry. People who knew Tang Yongming say they never imagined he could do such a horrible, senseless thing. A few minutes...
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Jonathan Adams
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Nov 15, 2008 05:49 AM
by Jonathan Adams Recent anti-China demonstrations and violence in Taiwan have highlighted the wide culture and perception gap between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. Living in Taipei, I sometimes feel that, even as both sides strengthen commercial...
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Manuela Zoninsein
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Nov 14, 2008 01:43 AM
Melamine has been found in nearly 10 percent of milk and yogurt samples from three of the biggest domestic dairy companies in China: Mengniu, Yili and the Bright group. These large producers have borne most of the blame in China's tainted milk scandal....
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Melinda Liu
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Nov 12, 2008 11:51 PM
China has denied that it put pressure on Taiwan to arrest former President Chen Shui-bian, who's been arrested, accused of embezzlement, money laundering, taking bribes, and forging documents while in office. Chen, a long time opponent of reunification...
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