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One of Asia’s most cherished cultural treasures, China is a vast country in a different world. From classy metropolises with countless attractions to the countryside and desert landscapes, China has 33 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The country is also of paradoxes, starting with the skyscrapers from Beijing or Shanghai to the rural provinces where technology barely hit. The civil war in 1945 defined the China of today. Beijing is currently undergoing a huge investment program, being the host for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
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Chinese Journalist Sentenced To 3 Years
From AP:
A Chinese writer and journalist who was arrested after protesting against a power plant in southwest China was sentenced Friday to three years in prison on charges of subverting state power, his lawyer said.
Chen Daojun was sentenced in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, in a trial lasting a ...
House Of Leading Chinese Rights Activist Demolished
From AFP:
Beijing authorities destroyed the home of leading rights activist Ni Yulan on Friday as her distraught husband pleaded with the government to release her from jail.
Up to 200 police surrounded the home of the activist lawyer Ni and her husband Dong Jiqin as a bulldozer demolished the rest of ...
David Shambaugh: Beijing’s Thrust Into Latin America
Written by David Shambaugh, Director of the China Policy Program at George Washington University, from International Herald Tribune:
History might mark the meeting last weekend of the Group of 20 nations in Washington as formal anointment of China as a major world economic power. On the heel of that historic meeting, ...
China Says Quake School Toll Over 19,000
According to recently released statistics about the May 12 Sichuan earthquake, more than 19,000 people died in schools that collapsed in the disaster. From Reuters:
The deaths of children, many buried under ruins of shoddily built classrooms while nearby buildings withstood the tremors, has been the most controversial aspect of the ...
Photo: A unemployed worker on the street
A man waiting for unemployment pay in Beijing, from duowei news.
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