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Vanessa Hua
Affiliation during program: San Francisco Chronicle
Country Focus: Panama

	Program: Spring 2002   [email protected]

Vanessa Hua covers Asian-American issues at The San Francisco Chronicle. Previously, she covered multicultural business and digital culture for the newspaper. Her IRP Fellowship in the spring of 2002 took her to Panama. Her other overseas reporting experiences include South Korea, where she wrote about adult adoptees who have returned to build a community and how the country has become a pop culture powerhouse. From China, she wrote about expatriates returning to their homeland, transforming the country with factories and tech startups. From Burma, she filed stories on human rights, AIDS, and micro-finance programs. She began her career at The Los Angeles Times before heading east to The Hartford Courant. A Bay Area native, she graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in English and master's in Media Studies.

Stories
	· Which China Card?
	· Playing the Panama card The China-Taiwan connection
	· Taiwan wage economic, political battle in Panama China, Taiwan wage economic battle
	· Lethal Legacy: Panama wants U.S. to clear explosives from former ranges

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