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31 Oct 09
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U.S. and China tackle clean energy challenge BEIJING – Ahead of President Barack Obama’s first visit to China next month, American and Chinese officials and scholars are engaged in intense discussions on how the world’s two biggest polluting nations should manage their responsibility to a... |
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27 Oct 09
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Photographer's mission to remember Mao By NBC News' Bo Gu
BEIJING – Thirty-three years after his death, Mao Zedong is still a god to many in China. And you can see him everywhere.
He's mostly standing, in a military uniform or a long buttoned-up winter coat, sometimes wearing his symbol... |
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14 Oct 09
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Resource-hungry China heads to Afghanistan By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
LOGAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Early on a recent morning we were driving to a shoot when an astonishing sight loomed up ahead of us. NBC News cameraman Steve O’Neill exclaimed, "It’s the Great Wall of China... |
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13 Oct 09
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UN expert:‘Catastrophe’ pending if climate change not halted BEIJING – "Abnormal" weather phenomena will have devastating impact on the world's agricultural production and food supply – which could lead to food shortages and food riots, warned a top U.N. expert.
In an exclusive interview with NBC N... |
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09 Oct 09
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China lays out welcome mat to media giants By NBC News' Bo Gu
BEIJIJNG – One week after China celebrated 60 years of communist rule, several hundred representatives from more than 100 overseas media groups and 40 Chinese media are gathering in Beijing for the World Media Summit to discu... |
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01 Oct 09
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China displays military might with massive parade By NBC News' Ed Flanagan
BEIJING – A veil of secrecy and intense – some would say comically extreme – protective measures defined the lead-up to today's 60th anniversary celebrations in China.
The massive military parade on Thursday was the manifes... |
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30 Sep 09
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China celebrates 60 years with star-studded movie By NBC News' Bo Gu
BEIJING – With more than 170 A-list movie stars from China and Hong Kong, "The Founding of a Republic," is breaking box office records – raking in $33.8 million during its first 10 days in theaters.
But this is nothing like... |
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25 Sep 09
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Life returns to the 'workshop of the world' By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent
DONGGUAN, China – "It's been a rough year," Ben Schwall shouted above the rumbling furnaces of a giant Chinese glass factory. He watched as workers, blowing down long tubes, transformed blobs of molten glass in... |
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24 Sep 09
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Life returns to the workshop of the world By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent
DONGGUAN, China – "It's been a rough year," Ben Schwall shouted above the rumbling furnaces of a giant Chinese glass factory. He watched as workers, blowing down long tubes, transformed blobs of molten glass in... |
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14 Sep 09
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It’s party time in Beijing – and only some are invited By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING – After a short summer break, I returned to Beijing to find the city under siege.
At least that’s how it looks these days – two weeks before the national holiday on Oct. 1 to mark the 60th anniversary ... |
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04 Sep 09
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Spy museum for Chinese citizens ‘ONLY’ By NBC News' Bo Gu
NANJING, China – In the middle of Yuhuatai Martyr Memorial Park in Nanjing, southeast China’s ancient capital, is a small building called the "Jiangsu National State Security Education Museum."
The sign in front of the gat... |
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03 Sep 09
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Trying to green the growing Gobi desert By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BUREN SOUM, CENTRAL PROVINCE, Mongolia – In Beijing, we're used to hearing about the problems of desertification.
Roughly 400 million people in China and a third of its land are affected by desertification... |
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20 Aug 09
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Amid ‘hazardous’ air, China races down low-carbon path By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING – For most of August, it’s been hard to imagine China leading the charge down a low-carbon path.
On my Blackberry, headlines about how the country is seeking to ramp up development of alterna... |
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13 Aug 09
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Movie aims to rein in China’s online mob By NBC News' Ed Flanagan
BEIJING – In the past few years China's Internet vigilantes have mobilized to root out, expose and shame people they perceive to be exhibiting corrupt or immoral behavior.
Marked for their unfettered zeal, the liter... |
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10 Aug 09
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Organic farming sprouts in Beijing By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING – A debate over whether eating organic foods provides any nutritional benefit was sparked late last month after an independent study in the U.K. found that there were no significant nutritional differenc... |
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28 Jul 09
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Microfinance in China poised to breakout By NBC News' Ed Flanagan
BEIJING – As Americans struggle to dig themselves out of debt and soldier on through recession, one U.S- based organization is asking them to loan their spare dollars not to the needy at home, but to those residing in the Unit... |
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24 Jul 09
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China's economy keeps chugging With a GDP growth rate of 7.1 percent, China’s economy is still growing despite the global recession. Chinese economist Shen Minghao discusses how the economy continues to move forward.
VIDEO: Chinese economist Shen Minghao discusses China's sti... |
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22 Jul 09
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‘Magical’ total eclipse of the sun wows viewers By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
FENGXIAN, China – I had to suppress a smile.
A physician from Vancouver, Duncan Etches, was carrying a book entitled "Mathematical Astronomy Morsels" and was in the process of recounting his decision to join a UC... |
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18 Jul 09
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U.S. ends Shanghai World Expo suspense By Eric Baculinao, NBC News Beijing Bureau Chief
BEIJING –Months of speculation that America might snub China over a global showcase event came to an end Friday with the formal groundbreaking ceremony for the U.S.A. Pavilion at the Shanghai World Ex... |
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13 Jul 09
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Urumqi: From riots to a beauty contest By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent
URUMQI, China – Riot-torn Urumqi is hosting a beauty contest. The streets are still swamped by riot police, the city tense and littered with the debris of the worst unrest in decades, but the contestants f... |
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10 Jul 09
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Mongolia – offers insight into China’s regional reputation By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia – As events unfold in Xinjiang Province, we have seen a resurgence of ethnic Chinese nationalist sentiment mixed with fear and mistrust of not just the Uighur people but also the outsi... |
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09 Jul 09
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Anger and hatred on the streets of Urumqi By NBC News' Bo Gu
URUMQI, Xinjiang – As we drove through the empty streets of Urumqi, I was immediately reminded of the unrest in the Tibetan capital Lhasa last year – but with one key difference.
Here, in the remote capital of China’s northw... |
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08 Jul 09
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Chinese open up – slightly – over Uighur riots By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent
URUMQI, China – Thousands of riot police have descended upon the Western city of Urumqi as Chinese authorities try to control the ethnic tensions that sparked riots on Sunday and left at least 156 dead. Fea... |
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06 Jul 09
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Who are the Uighurs? NBC News' Adrienne Mong explains the discord between ethnic Muslim Uighurs and China's Han majority.
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01 Jul 09
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‘The new New York is Beijing’ By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING – By all rights, Beijing should be suffering the post-Olympic hangover anticipated by skeptics and cynics.
China’s exports-driven economy has taken a big hit from the gl... |
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29 Jun 09
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Swift business for Beijing bike repairman With the warmer weather, Guo Li Yi gets more business repairing bicycles on a Beijing street corner.The 63–year-old from Anhui province talks to NBC News about his life and work in the big city.
VIDEO: Swift business for Beijing bi... |
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23 Jun 09
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Unlikely heroes for Chinese blogosphere By NBC News' Ed Flanagan
BEIJING – It’s not often that a confessed murderer is feted publicly for her heroism and bravery, but that is precisely what happened to Deng Yujiao in China’s blogosphere following her release from house arrest last week.... |
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19 Jun 09
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Iran protests make headlines in China, too By NBC News' Bo Gu
BEIJING – Wow. People in Iran have the right to elect their own president? Candidates are allowed to participate in TV debates and give speeches to their supporters, just like in the United States? And they are allowed to public... |
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17 Jun 09
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Mandatory filtering software ignites outrage in China By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING – It’s a real measure of Hong Kong’s autonomy – enshrined in the "one country, two systems" principle contained in its constitutional document under Chinese sovereignty – that certain freedoms and ... |
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10 Jun 09
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China starts catching up on climate change By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING – Spectacularly sunny and clear skies in Beijing the past two days – and generally most of this year so far – have made residents here (or at least this one resident) appreciative of the Chinese govern... |
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09 Jun 09
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Hummer elevates small Chinese company to global stage By NBC News Ed Flanagan
While the announcement that General Motors is selling its Hummer line to a Chinese manufacturer brought a collective sigh of relief that another major U.S. brand would be spared from collapse, here in China the first ever purchase... |
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04 Jun 09
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Recalling the spirit of Tiananmen By George Lewis, NBC News Correspondent
I was thinking, on my last visit to China, how much has changed since I first went there in 1989 to cover the events surrounding the student “democracy movement” in Tiananmen Square. Today, you... |
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04 Jun 09
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A glimpse across the North Korean border By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
YANJI, Jilin Province, China –
Huang yian ham ni da!An nyung ha se yo!Kam sah ham ni da!
The cries that surrounded us as we walked onto the plane seemed standard fare – "welcome," "hello," and "t... |
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03 Jun 09
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Tiananmen protester: ‘We were all idealists’ By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING – Twenty years ago, a handful of university students from some of China’s most elite institutions shot to stardom when they led a series of mass demonstrations in Beijing calling for greater freedoms... |
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26 May 09
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A warmer Taiwan-China embrace? By Eric Baculinao, NBC News Beijing bureau chief
BEIJING - It was hardly conceivable that the sports of rock n’ roll dancing and Frisbee could help drive Taiwan closer to China, but that’s exactly what happened with the recent visit to China ... |
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22 May 09
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Exposing the 'truth' about the Nanking massacre By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING – "City of Life and Death" might sound like your average escapist action film helping to usher in the summer movie season.
But it’s not.
The 2-hour black and white epic recounts the early day... |
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18 May 09
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China's graduates face grim job prospects By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
Graduation is just a month away and millions of college students in China are expected to hit the streets during what is the country’s tightest job market in decades.
In anticipation of keen competition, most of th... |
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13 May 09
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A year after China's quake, many still asking why A mournful China marked the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing and 5 million homeless on Tuesday. NBC News’ Ian Williams reports from the quake zone.
VIDEO: A year after China's quake, ma... |
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12 May 09
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Wails of grief a year later By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
HANWANG, Sichuan Province – It came without warning. Its unexpectedness as stunning as the raw emotion it so clearly expressed.
We were wrapping up our interview with Huang Lianhe, a father who lost his only chil... |
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11 May 09
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Flowers for the dead...and the living By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEICHUAN, China – It looked like a Sunday midday stroll.
Families, couples, and clusters of young students carrying large bouquets and plastic bags containing incense and paper walked under a hazy sun toward a to... |
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07 May 09
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Chinese artist continues search for quake toll By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
The cameras converged on Chinese artist Ai Weiwei as soon as the news broke.
An official from the Sichuan provincial government announced a final toll for the number of children missing and killed from last... |
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29 Apr 09
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Half-empty plane: Is it swine flu or slump? By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING en route to NEW YORK via LONDON –
My flight to London was half-full – perhaps from last-minute cancellations over swine flu fears, but more likely the result of the global economic recession, which... |
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22 Apr 09
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Hello sailor! Rival navies check one another out By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
QINGDAO, China – As China prepares to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy on Thursday, its normally secretive military has taken the unprecedented step of showca... |
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20 Apr 09
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In China, panicked parents fish for mates By NBC News Bo Gu
BEIJING – On Sunday afternoon thousands of people gathered near Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium for a mass blind date.
But the scene was not the usual one of young swinging singles mixing and mingling; rather, it was full of a... |
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17 Apr 09
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‘I didn’t look after my child’ By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING – Last September, less than a month after the end of the Beijing Summer Olympics, about 40 parents materialized in front of the Bird's Nest stadium. Somber and silent, they stood in a row; each one carri... |
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16 Apr 09
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Chinese scrap peddlers no longer cashing in While China has been weathering the global economic crisis better than many other countries so far, the financial downturn is hitting some hard. NBC News' Adrienne Mong reports on a unique group of workers known as scrap peddlers, who are barely... |
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10 Apr 09
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Lifting the veil on a North Korean obsession By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING –North Korea has been in the news a lot lately, but for all the articles on its recent missile test or senior leader Kim Jong Il’s health, the isolated state remains a mystery – secretive and opaque... |
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08 Apr 09
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Chinese coming back to Marx amid crisis By NBC News Bo Gu
BEIJING – Just 126 years after his death, Karl Marx’s moment may finally have arrived.
The People’s Press – the biggest publishing house for China’s orthodox revolutionary books – reports that Marx’s anti-capitalism opus... |
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01 Apr 09
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China moving fashion forward Despite the gloomy economic times and shrunken fashion shows in the U.S. and Europe, China hosted its Fall/ Winter 2009 Fashion Week with great flare last week. More than 20 well-known brands launched new collections - and many of them were Chinese... |
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31 Mar 09
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China grapples with new world role By Eric Baculinao, NBC News Beijing Bureau Chief
BEIJING – As President Hu Jintao heads for the G-20 Summit in London to tackle the global financial crisis, Chinese media is abuzz with clashing views about how the Middle Kingdom should manage i... |
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