May 2010

China journey

Thu, 05/06/2010 - 12:00

Author Xinran’s China Witness is a truly magnificent book straddling fine scholarship and great storytelling. China Witness is an account of people’s lives during China’s Red history

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China's Xinjiang to get $1.5 billion boost

Wed, 05/05/2010 - 12:00

China plans to inject nearly $1.5 billion into a western region that is the site of simmering unrest, boosting its economy in hopes of reducing ethnic tension after riots last year killed nearly 200 people.

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Shanghai's Expo: The world through a funhouse mirror

Tue, 05/04/2010 - 12:00

As news spread that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had entered China aboard his personal armoured train, one of his bureaucrats was nervously explaining why the country had decided to spend money building a pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, advertising the desperately impoverished state as a “Paradise for the People.”

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Thunder in Oslo

Tue, 05/04/2010 - 12:00

Who owns human rights? For generations, the answer was the left -- the anti-fascist left that fought Franco and formed the core of the Free French, and took to the streets to defend the working man against capitalist exploitation.

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Man seeks help for son's release from Chinese prison

Mon, 05/03/2010 - 12:00

Sher Baz Khan, a Pakistani who has been living in China since 1987, has appealed to the Chinese government and the Chinese court to release his 17-year-old son from a prison in Urmuqi, China.

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China promises trucks for Cambodian military after US rap

Mon, 05/03/2010 - 12:00

China is to donate more than 250 trucks to Cambodia just weeks after the United States withheld a shipment of military vehicles in response to Phnom Penh's recent expulsion of 20 Uighur refugees, local media reported Monday.

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What Does China Have to Do with Islam and Democracy?

Mon, 05/03/2010 - 12:00

Inside China, the Uighur Muslims of Xinjiang, or Turkestan, who came onto many people's radars for the first time after last summer's riots in Urumqi, might be a threat to the People's Republic, though I cannot imagine so tiny a minority challenging so giant a state.

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