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From International Herald Tribune:
On a February day in 1989, a young woman walked into a show at the National Gallery of Art here, whipped out a pellet gun and fired two shots into a mirrored sculpture in an exhibition called "China/Avant-Garde." Police officers swarmed into the museum. The show, China's ...
From Reuters:
Sometime around the end of this year, China's financial markets may undergo a big shift: the yuan may stop rising.
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From The China Daily:
The haze that reduced visibility for a few days till Monday did not mean Beijing's air quality was bad, a senior city environmental official said Tuesday.
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From New York Times:
President Bush held private talks with five prominent Chinese dissidents on Tuesday, and urged China’s foreign minister to relax restrictions on human rights, as part of an intensifying White House effort to put pressure on Beijing before Mr. Bush travels there in a little over a week ...
Richard Spencer reports in the Telegraph:
The blocking of politically sensitive sites, including those dealing with Tibet and Taiwan, remained in place today despite government assurances that censorship would be lifted during the Games.
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Mary-anne Toy and Sanghee Liu reports in the Sidney Morning Herald:
Stringent security surrounding the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics has failed, with a Korean television station broadcasting preview footage after a reporter managed to walk into the National Stadium during a rehearsal on Monday.
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Francesco Sisci writes in the Asia Times:
In China, it is now trendy to wear a cross, hanging from a small chain at the neck and fully exposed on the chest. The cross might be made of wood, metal or, even, silver or gold or with precious stones. However, the cross ...
It should be a cause for some sort of celebration when the US Federal Reserve stops increasing money and credit and so is not increasing inflation in consumer prices. But it is not, because so much debt has already been created that it is impossible to pay it back. We are doomed!!
The United States is seeking to resolve its present financial crisis by socializing losses. International precedents indicate that this path leads to curbs on individual freedom and enterprise, and economic decline. - John Browne
Counterfeit chargers for devices such as game consoles can now be added to the range of fake products churned out by China and putting lives at risk around the world. An amoral fusion of Maoism and Confucianism has created the perfect economic, political and cultural laboratory for a piracy boom. - Peter Navarro
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