Tag: china
member name: Deb S.
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January 25, 2009 03:12 PM EST --
Monday, January 26, 2009 is the first day of the Chinese New Year. Known also as the Spring Festival and Lunar New Year, the holiday traditionally begins on the New Moon on the first day of the first . . .
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April 12, 2008 08:26 AM EDT --
San Francisco, California
The cab ride from the cemetery to Chinatown took Lili more than the five miles. It transported . . .
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May 02, 2008 12:09 PM EDT --
Written by Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 5/1/2008 2:42:00 PM
At a press conference in New York this morning PEN announced its intent to petition the Chinese government to free . . .
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June 04, 2008 08:23 AM EDT --
On the eve of the 19 th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre (June 4,1989) the United States urged China to give a full account of what really happened at Tiananmen Square that day and to release prisoners . . .
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July 25, 2008 09:29 AM EDT --
In a recent New York Times article, the reporter described two new drugs in clinical trials for Type 2 diabetes, both of which seem to have a remarkable and unexpected side effect, at least in animals . . .
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September 11, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
Sunday, September 14 th is the date for this year’s Moon Festival (also known as The Mooncake or Mid-Autumn Festival) In Catonese, this mid-autumn festival is “Chung Chiu”, in Mandarin . . .
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January 29, 2009 10:17 AM EST --
By Tim Johnson | McClatchy Newspapers
BEIJING — A court Thursday sentenced two men to death for their role in a tainted-milk scandal but gave the former chairwoman of China's largest dairy . . .
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February 02, 2009 11:38 AM EST --
As China faces its own domestic financial crisis, the leadership has received increasing criticism from within the country, most notably the December 10, 2008 Charter ’08, a petition originally . . .
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February 03, 2009 10:21 AM EST --
We have been asked to provide some websites and/or specific stories that focus on Charter ’08’s potential impact within China. Here are a few we thought were especially good. . . .
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August 04, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
Following the tragedy of Tiananmen Square in1989, the Chinese Party decided that the way to remain in power would be to ease up on economic freedom as a tradeoff for political freedom. After DengXiaping . . .
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December 17, 2008 06:55 AM EST --
Our book, Rabbit in the Moon, talks about the 1989 Student Democracy Movement and the demands by students and ordinary people for reform. Nineteen years later, there is much change, but still . . .
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January 19, 2009 01:49 PM EST --
On December 10, 2008, more than 2000 Chinese citizens released a signed petition they called Charter 08 to mark the 60 th anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The name, . . .
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March 02, 2009 08:36 AM EST --
According to a BBC article, a group of mothers whose children were killed in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 are now urging the Chinese government to end the taboo against acknowledging the . . .
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March 06, 2009 10:51 AM EST --
The short-lived student democracy movement of 1989 had one prominent supporter among the Communist Party leaders: Zhao Ziyang. Fearing a loss of power as the protests grew and ordinary citizens joined . . .
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June 20, 2009 08:06 AM EDT --
NOTE: China can do it, why can't we? Many American health insurance plans do not cover preventive care such as PAP smears and immunizations. Check yours
English News Service
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June 30, 2008 09:46 PM EDT --
By popular request, we are adding a pronunciation guide for those who have said that would will help them pronounce some of the difficult Chinese names in our novel, Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah . . .
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July 28, 2008 01:26 PM EDT --
This week our novel, Rabbit in the Moon is featured on AuthorBuzz: http://www.authorbuzz.com/dearreader/index.shtml . Five people will receive free autographed books, so take a look and e-mail us if . . .
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October 03, 2008 11:16 AM EDT --
Rabbit in the Moon has been submitted for one of the National Best Books 2008 Awards sponsored by USA Book News in the Fiction & Literature: Thriller/Adventure category! Keep your fingers . . .
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March 11, 2009 09:37 AM EDT --
Yesterday (March 10, 2009) was the 50 th anniversary of the failed Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule that sent the Dalai Lama, age 73, into exile. 2009 is a year of several politically . . .
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March 21, 2009 12:23 PM EDT --
According to a report from Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, a human rights group out of Beijing, China has arrested Zhang Shijun, a former soldier who recently posted a letter on the Internet . . .
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