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Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits -Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

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August 31, 2001
Global Slowdown Threatening Chinese Economy "The most serious problem China confronts at the moment is the harsh international economic situation, the impact of which is being felt here," -China Daily Dotcom warrior -Zou Huilin Health care blackmail -Sunny Hu
August 30, 2001
Chinese middle class growth ideal for Singapore business opportunities. "Whether we were in Kashgar, or Urumqi, or Xian, or Tianchi, every place we went to we saw that most of the tourists are Chinese tourists and they didn't look poor to me." -Maria Siow Economic might of overseas Chinese does not necessarily translate into political power. With an estimated wealth of more than $1.5 trillion, this group constitutes what could arguably be the third largest economy in the world, following the United States and Japan, respectively. -Phar Kim Beng Analysis: South-East Asia's Chinese -Mangai Balasegaram Where Zhu Rongji's Reforms Fall Short -Mark Clifford U.S. May Help Chinese Evade Net Censorship -Jennifer Lee Knitting firm accused of using child labour -Pan Haixia Fake bike wars prove costly for manufacturers -Julia Han Follow in Tracks of Gagging News Media Reports -Li Heng Much Exaggeration of the Economic Challenge From China -Philip Bowring
August 28, 2001
What If the Media's Absent? Since last July, we've seen serious accidents taking place one after another in Guangxi, Shaanxi, Shanghai and Jiangsu. News about the accidents spread fast by way of television, newspaper and the website. Especially the case of the Nandan mine flooding, it was only due to the great efforts by journalists that the "Iron Curtain" of the fact was torn apart. -Du Minghua Running in place -Sophie Beach What Dies Beneath -Hannah Beech _chinacoal news Viewers switch on to moving tales of anti-graft heroes -Julie Han Racism in China goes beyond ethnic lines -Jeremy Page China slams Burma over drug trade -Sa-nguan Khumrungroj 118 Chinese given death by Japanese military court during WWII -Kyodo News State Plans Six-fold Increase in Education Funding -China Daily Private sector gives Shanghai an education -Asahi Shimbun Consumers Get Savvy About Green Products -Beijing Review Chinese website heads for Disneyland -Jiang Chen
August 27, 2001
Taiwan to Ease Restrictions The reforms, devised by an economic panel whose decisions the local Taiwan authorities has guaranteed to implement, come ahead of the likely accession of the two to the WTO later this year. -China Daily Forum proposes easing of China policy -Richard Dobson via Taiwanheadlines On the trail of a killer -Bay Fang AIDS in China: From Drugs to Blood to Sex -U.S. Embassy Beijing China's Role in Int'l Anti-Drug Cooperation "Encouraging" -Xinhua Substandard and fake drugs may kill 200,000 a year -Leigh Jenkins China Cracks 160,000 Narcotics-Related Crimes -Xinhua "E" is for experience -Paul Mooney American in China saw history up close -Frank Langfitt Breaking Barrier: China Reforms Residence System -Xinhua China Beefs up Role of Trade Unions for Workers in Private Firms -Xinhua
August 24, 2001
City gets down to business as model for rise of red capitalism, One of the unique factors they noticed about the city was its lack of unemployment. The port city with a population of more than seven million has an unemployment rate of less than one per cent, -Clara Li 'Exploiters' relish new-found political status Of the people, for the people "In China, democracy grows upwards from the lowest level. I think this is right. China is an agricultural country, so if the farmers have democracy, the country has democracy." -Bill Smith Critics vote down village elections as graft-tainted farce -Clara Li Let the Games Begin! -CIIC China to cut tax on cleaner cars -BBC The united estates of China -Asia Pulse China to learn about Minamata mercury poisoning -Kyodo News China-UN Launch Sustainable Land-Use Project -Xinhua Beijing opens water supply to foreign firms -Michael Ma Dissident sleuth's life on the edge -Glenn Schloss Jiang's Turn Tempts Fate -Bruce Gilley Persuading the reluctant spenders -Economist.com Need to boost economy main topic at Beidaihe -Jasper Becker
August 22, 2001
China to Revise Law on Trade Unions The New York Times published a story in its web edition Wednesday deploring workers' welfare in private businesses in China...This situation is hopefully going to change as the news report coincides with a legislative decision made in Beijing the same day that the country's 52-year-old law on trade unions will be revised. -Xinhua Workers' Rights Suffering as China Goes Capitalist -Eric Eckholm China exposes bogus officials -Duncan Hewitt China Lifts 22.6 Billion-Yuan Burden off Township Enterprises -People's daily Dried-up rivers kill rare carp -Guo Nei Pessimism on a Grand Scale -Dexter Roberts 6th World Chinese Entrepreneurs Convention to Be Held in Nanjing -Xinhua Big cities should lead nation's urbanization -Jia Hepeng
August 20, 2001
A young woman displays a tattoo of Chairman Mao Zedong along with characters that read "Fight corruption, initiate the honest and clean" during a body art party in Shanghai at the weekend. Reuters photo In the Wake of the Admiral Six centuries after Admiral Zheng He set sail, Adi Ignatius finds a China still struggling with its place in the world Doctors' Dirty Needles Spread Hepatitis in China -Elisabeth Rosenthal Chinese troops seize Tibetan monastery -Oliver August Tibetinfo South China fakes flourish on eve of WTO entry -Tamora Vidaillet Chinese authorities raise heat on media -Frank Langfitt Why the past still separates China and Japan -Robert Marquand Over 9,000 Malfeasant Cases Uncovered in First Half of Year -Du Minghua Manila apologizes to Beijing, says it was chance encounter -Dona Pazzibugan The Temples of Bloom -Edward A. Gargan
August 18, 2001
Unpaid teacher fights for justice "Paying the money alone is not the issue," Mr Xu said. "The courts must rule that non-payment of wages is illegal." -Mark O'Neill TV 'first' lands village candidate in hot water During last year's election, Mr Liao remembered how a cadre's speech carried on the village's closed-circuit television system had reached just about every family and he decided to have a go himself... -Jamila Zhou Charge of the Lighter Brigade -David Murphy 'Uighurs Need Not Apply' -Bruce Gilley Beware of what you eat -Xu Xiaomin China Drafts Marine Economy Development Program -China Daily
August 17, 2001
US firm 'signed cheques left and right' in spy-plane saga But requests for a partial breakdown of how much of the US$5.8 million in US taxpayer dollars was paid to what Chinese parties and for what services only result in a Kafkaesque game of bureaucratic pinball. -Tom Mitchell New for China's courts: trained judges, standard rules A favorite opera character for ordinary Chinese is the black-faced Bao Gong (Justice Bao), an ancient, saintly arbiter so incorruptible that he even punishes the emperor's son-in-law. -Robert Marquand Last Days in China -John Derbyshire China to Eliminate Limits on Labor Flow -Xinhua Guangdong Announces Free Education Scheme for Poor Rural Students -Xinhua
August 16, 2001
Nation protests against shrine visit Chinese people on Wednesday held rallies across the country to commemorate the 56th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and protested Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's recent visit to the Yasukuni Shrine. -Chinadaily Anger over shrine visit rages for third day -SCMP Feature: "I saw the Chinese People's Sufferings Today" -Xinhua. The Sino-Japanese War -GIO Antibiotic abuse arouses concern More than 80 per cent of hospitalized patients use antibiotics, far higher than 30 per cent - the investigation result of the World Health Organization conducted around the globe, she said. -Tian Xiuzhen. google antibiotic Livelihood turns to dust as coal yard era ends -Tom Mitchell Study: China Smoking Deaths Rising -Emma Ross Figures hide scale of poverty in Tibet -Daniel Kwan Vermont Scholar Lingers in Chinese Prison -Jennifer Smith Farmers reap profits from latest rural reforms -Wu Qi Approval styles reformed to encourage investors -Huang Zhiling Strange bedfellows -Kenneth Howe Inside China -Online Newshour
August 15, 2001
Too poor to pay for life The family is among millions of peasant households caught in a health-care crisis that highlights the double standards at work in modern China. -Calum MacLeod Medical insurance undergoes surgery -Jin Bo Chinese workers protest over layoffs and graft "No one's representing our interests. Even our so-called labour union is in their hands."..."They're scared of facing changing times." -Jonathan Ansfield Girl's death highlights sweatshop misery -Josephine Ma One China gaffe sparks mobile recall -Reuters Trial resumes for Chinese webmaster -Rose Tang China: On the brink of a moral crisis? -Willy Wo-Lap Lam Sea life tragedy in Ningbo not considered fishy -Hu Yueming Scenic spots to see more sanitary restroom spaces -Liu Li. Minimum Standard of Living System in China: An Interview -CIIC
August 14, 2001
Chinese alligator back from the brink The alligator was immortalised in Song Dynasty poetry over a thousand years ago as a ferocious danger to avoid in the Yangtze River basin...And as the ducks found out to their cost - the alligator's killer instinct hasn't yet been stifled by civilisation. -ITN Outsiders welcomed in policy reversal Hebei capital opens its doors in 'humane' act to reduce peasant population and attract skilled workers -SCMP Panda baby boom in China -CNN Moscow's Chinese gangland -Mark O'Neill Systems represent cultures' values -Bruce M. Lyons China More Dedicated to FDI than Korea: FKI Team -Cho Jung-sik Officials exploit victims at workplace accidents-Yangcheng Evening News China to Develop New Energy Resources, Renewable Energy Over Next Five Years -Eyeforenergy.com Blueprints Free markets or supermarkets? Sascha Matuszak
August 11, 2001
China's boom spreads HIV to its heartlands. Ruili, the journey’s start, is already marked by disease. Pallid men throng the streets in the tropical sun. At night, gaunt women stumble around vomiting and the living dead are slumped under trees by the Burmese border crossing. -Oliver August To die for -Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark War against Aids 'too little, too late' -Leigh Jenkins Introducing the China Ruling Party -Thomas Friedman Mythology of China overstates its prospects -Frank Langfitt
August 10, 2001
In Jiang's Words: 'I Hope the Western World Can Understand China Better'. Just now you said The New York Times was blocked. This is really a specific issue you raised and I will look into the matter. -New York Times Jiang's Responses to Questions Submitted Prior to Interview The Great Firewall of China -Andy Sennitt Schemes needed to cure waste headache "International experience shows that those countries whose population has high levels of awareness and strong commitment to environmental protection have the best performing waste management services and China should follow the examples," -Fu Jing Betting rackets undermining legal lotteries -Jamila Zhow Toil and Trouble -Bruce Gilley CUPE president vows to free Chinese convict -thestar Farmers' Fears Take Root -Evelyn Iritani Five arrested in $28 million Net fraud case in China -Reuters China Uncovers Defalcation of Poverty Relief Funds -Xinhua Not quite at home in Suzhou -Arrol Gellner Slow-paced legacy -Tom Mitchell Chinese markets in the grip of a new scandal -Richard McGregor Large Ancient Brick Tomb Discovered in China -Xinhua photo China turns screw again on Tibetan culture -David Rennie Here, at least, there is no mystery meat -Michael A. Lev
August 7, 2001
Chinese lawyer raises legal bar Zhou's successes are testament to the nascent but growing awareness of workers' rights and an increasingly independent judiciary. -Shai Oster Lost and found Around 100,000 babies are abandoned every year in China - in department stores, ditches, even on rubbish dumps. What sort of future can these orphans expect? -John Gittings Http//:www.love.(com, net...) -Zhao Jin Bank 'allowed $51m to go missing' -SCMP Wig Firm Owner Admits Body Searches -Xinhua CNNIC locks horns with 3721.com -Jamila Zhou 'Bad-looking' girl gets written apology -Meng Yan Online Police Appear in Internet Bars in Xi'an -Xinhua 'Pseudo' IP service causes war of words -Raymond Li Things My Kids Are Learning in China -John Derbyshire Renovated temple to restore patriotic pride -Michael Ma
August 6, 2001
Police tortured officer in murder case "Many of the details I do not want to say. I did not want to live any more and decided to die as soon as possible. To achieve this, I admitted my guilt and cooked up a story of how I committed the murder." -Mark O'Neill Out of work in Guangzhou "We haven't missed a thing...When we were born, China lacked sufficient food. During the Cultural Revolution we were sent to the countryside to be 're-educated'. Then we were at the forefront of the reform policies of the 1980s - only to be made redundant in the 1990s."..."If they would accept such jobs, we could re-employ all of them within 24 hours." -Cathleen Liu China in her grasp -Mark O'Neill China Kicks off Drilling into Earth Crust Project -Xinhua Body Searches Set Off Protests by Workers -China Daily Japanese technology firms move production to China -AFP How Far Will Domestic Demand Push China's Economy? -Xinhua U.N. says Chinese dams could help Laos fight floods -Dominic Whiting Experts Warn 'Code Red II' a Meaner Internet Worm -Elinor Mills Abreu Retirement Center Offers Quality Care in Traditional Setting -Sara Grimes
August 5, 2001
Torture Is Breaking Falun Gong "In the past two years, I have seen the worst of what man can do. We really are the worst animals on Earth." -John Pomfret and Philip P. Pan Falungong member dies in Chinese police custody: rights group -AFP The Breaking Point -Matthew Fourney Chinese region 'must conduct 20,000 abortions' Although the one-child policy is no longer strictly enforced in many rural areas, officials in Guangdong issued the edict after census officials revealed that the average family in Huaiji has five or more children. -Damien Mcelroy Abortions -Kate Drake U.S., China vie in bending the truth -Philip Cunningham
August 3, 2001
A model displays a dress made from recycled computer parts during the Taipei Computer Applications Show yesterday. Some 445 booths are registered at the five day extravaganza. Photo: AFP -Taipei Times Delegation Flies to Guangxi to Investigate Reported Coal Mine Disaster. A survivor from a flooded mine in South China estimates up to 400 workers were trapped in the tin pit accident on July 16...preliminary investigations found that more than 70 miners had been confirmed dead. -People's Daily New Campaign Launched Against HIV/AIDS Although the reported number of HIV/AIDS cases was 23,905 at the end of March, medical experts fear that the actual figure could be 30 times larger because most cases remain undiscovered. -21dnn China Launches Drive to Curb HIV in Blood -Jeremy Page Reaching Overseas, China Tries to Tether Its Own -Craig Smith Survey Chronicles Changing Chinese Lifestyles -CIIC China gaining confidence in market economy -Ruan Wei Japanese breweries tap China's tea market -Geoffrey Murray A Chinese city that loves all things Petrochemical -Edwin Chan
August 2, 2001
Up to 300 may be trapped in tin mine in South China Authorities in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Wednesday confirmed a reported water leak in a tin mine in Nandan County but refused to say how many people were trapped inside. -China Daily Tin Mine Flood Kills at Least 70 -Xinhua msha \| chinacoal-safety Organ transplant scams move online to exploit poor donors According to a report from Xinhua, a peasant from Kaifeng in Henan province was one of the first to respond. -SCMP Supervision Ministry checks government accounts for graft China will check the bank accounts of (central government agencies) in a bid to curb official corruption, the official People's Daily reported on Wednesday. -Reuters Clearing up Accounts to Curb Corruption -People's Daily Stop crying, tap China properly -Financial Express China appliance maker Haier seeks cool U.S. image -Jonathan Landreth Embracing China, Men Leave Taiwanese Wives -Tyler Marshall China’s president still riding high -John Pomfret Taiwanese Just Adore the Enemy -Ching-Ching Ni and Tyler Marshall

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