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Bird flu outbreak is spreading fear in China
BEIJING — On a subway car in Shanghai, commotion breaks out when someone spots a live chicken poking its head out of a bag tucked under one of the seats. On a highway in Zhejiang province, a motorist is so panicked by bird droppings landing on her...
Tags: Politics, Health Organizations, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, CECO Environmental Corporation, Bird Flu
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China: A domestic wine industry starts to take root
A few months before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, I read a blog post by an Atlantic Monthly correspondent about Chinese wine.
Chinese what?
I grew up outside New York City, where I ate hundreds of pounds of lo mein and pork-fried rice but didn't see, taste...Tags: Peace Corps, Wines, French Literature, Beijing Games, Grapes
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China, Middle East: New Fairmonts planned in the next two years
Look to China and the Middle East for new Fairmont hotel projects; both are in the forefront of a development boom launched by Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, which plans to develop more than 20 new properties in the next few years in several new destinations....
Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Arts and Culture, Culture, UNESCO, Cultural Development
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Revisionism Tokyo-style
This month 75 years ago, the people of Nanking, China's ancient capital city, were in the midst of one of the worst atrocities in history, the infamous Rape of Nanking. The truth of what actually happened is at the center of a bitter dispute between China...
Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Politics, Japan, Government, Criminals
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Pictures in the News | Dec. 13, 2012
FrameworkIn Thursday's Pictures in the News: a scuffle breaks out during the second session of the newly elected Ukrainian parliament in Kiev; Sikh Scots Guards soldier Jatenderpal Singh Bhullar becomes the first guardsman to parade outside Buckingham Palace... -
Japan scrambles jets in dispute with China over islands
BEIJING -- Japan scrambled F-15 fighter jets Thursday in response to a Chinese surveillance plane that flew over contested islands in the East China Sea, ratcheting up a dispute that is becoming increasingly worrisome to the international community....
Tags: Tokyo (Japan), Communist Party of China, Japan, Xi Jinping, China
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Kuang-hsun Ting dies at 97; bishop led Protestant church in China
Bishop Kuang-hsun Ting, who was one of the most influential Christian figures in China as the longtime leader of the country's government-sanctioned Protestant church, has died. He was 97. Ting died Nov. 22 at his home in Nanjing, according to...
Tags: Politics, Parties and Movements, Loyola University Chicago, Seminaries, Purdue University
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More Far East Movement
At the invitation of the Missouri School of Journalism, I am headed back to China on Friday for another week of training sessions with Chinese journalists. My panels will focus on the use of social media in news coverage. But I am eager to hear from my...
Tags: Japan, NBC (tv network), HLN (tv network), Journalism, Twitter, Inc.
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Nanjing, China - Permanent Jet Lag
Nanjing, China - A benefit of working the zombie morning news shift at WGN is that I never feel jet lagged whenever I travel internationally. Even though it took over 24 hours to get from O'Hare to my hotel in Nanjing, I feel the way I usually do -...
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'Flowers of War' goes truly global
In a globalized age, Chinese and American pop culture mix in unexpected ways. Taiwanese singers borrow from hip-hop and R&B. Locked-out NBA players join mainland basketball teams. And Batman — or, at least, the man who plays him — is called...Tags: Empire of the Sun (movie), Film Festivals, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Juvenile Delinquency
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'Flowers of War,' starring Christian Bale, premieres in Beijing
24 FramesDirector Zhang Yimou’s epic new film "The Flowers of War" doesn't open in the United States until Dec. 23, but the movie, starring Christian Bale and set amid the 1930s Japanese occupation of the Chinese city of Nanjing, premiered Sunday in the... -
'Flowers of War's' Zhang Yimou: Censorship limits Chinese films
24 Frames"The Flowers of War": Director Zhang Yimou said that he while he expected total artistic freedom during the making of the movie "The Flowers of War," starring Christian Bale, he also felt Chinese censorship limits filmmakers' options....
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