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Worldview: NGOs a paradox in today’s China
KUNMING, China - Late last year, HIV-AIDS activist Thomas Cai was suddenly summoned to appear the next day at a mysterious meeting in Beijing. Cai is the founder and director of ...
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China is still working to recover from 2008 quake, and from years of ecological abuse
Plain Dealer Chief Editorial Writer Joe Frolik is in China on a Gatekeeper Editors trip organized by the International Reporting Project, an independent journalism program based in ...
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Censorship hasn’t stopped the Internet from becoming a force in China
Plain Dealer Chief Editorial Writer Joe Frolik is in China on a Gatekeeper Editors trip organized by the International Reporting Project, an independent journalism program based in ...
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Worldview: A green movement grows in rural China
Gao Hai, a former Shanghai disc jockey who returned to Anlong village to grow - and cook - organic produce. (photo: Trudy Rubin) ANLONG, China - ...
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Worldview: Viewing ‘the other China,’ beyond the economic boom
BEIJING - With all the media focus on "Rising China," another side of China gets far less attention. Call it "the other China," the bulk of the country's population that hasn't ...
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Dispatch from China: Wrestling with Health care
Reporter's Notebook Like the United States, China is wrestling with its health care systems. And party officials are looking to the U.S. for good ideas as they struggle to provide ...
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IRP Journalists Report on “Loose Nukes” Issues
The spread of illicit nuclear materials, or “loose nukes,” is one of the most urgent issues of our time. IRP Fellows Joby Warrick, Sharon ...
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Black Hole on the Black Sea
Last fall, I boarded a ramshackle bus winding through the villages and vineyards on the Georgian side of the demarcation line with the breakaway region ...
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A New Start
For decades no one could enter or leave Elektrostal without the permission of the Soviet security services. After World War II, the city (whose name means “electric steel”) had ...
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They Fled from Our War
1. Among the many consequences of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, the plight of millions of Iraqi refugees is seldom mentioned. The stories of such people as Burhan ...
