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... ...full story at NBC World Blog
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Mr Hu Jintao at Beijing 2008, the Bird's Nest. »
YouTube video Mr. Hu inaugurates the Olympic Games of Beijing 2008 at the Bird's Nest stadium...
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Cheering crowds and changing minds at Beijing Paralympics » NBC World Blog By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer BEIJING – Two weeks after the end of the Summer Olympics, the residents of Beijing have yet to wake up to their much-anticipated sports hangover. In fact, if the vast crowds an NBC News crew and I witnessed on t... |
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Beijing steps up battle against smog » NBC World Blog By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer BEIJING – Twenty-two days before the Olympic Games open here, the capital is awash in smog – an unseasonably thick haze that seems part pollution, part humidity. Adrienne Mong / NBC News A typical mor... |
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It’s party time in Beijing – and only some are invited » NBC World Blog 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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Just 730 more days.... » Sinofile The Beijing News carried a front page picture today of the construction of the Bird's Nest -- the National Stadium that will showcase the 2008 Olympics. An astonishing and daring structure. But what about the weather on the eighth day... |
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China’s Muslim dilemma in ‘The New Frontier’ » NBC World Blog By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer KHOTAN, Xinjiang Autonomous Region – Across much of China, strangers upon being introduced will ask each other, "Where is your ancestral home?" Adrienne Mong / NBC News An Uighur couple in Khotan But in t... |
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