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... ...full story at NBC World Blog
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Tibetan students stage Beijing vigil »
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Tibetan students have held a sit-in demonstration at a Beijing university to protest against Chinese rule in their homeland.
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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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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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The Sleeping Giant wakes...Not » NBC World Blog By Adrienne Mong, NBC News producer BEIJING – It’s rare that those of us at the NBC News Beijing bureau ever envy Chinese politicians. But around this time of the year, some of us wouldn’t mind trading places with members of China’s legi... |
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Mandatory filtering software ignites outrage in China » NBC World Blog 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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‘The new New York is Beijing’ » NBC World Blog 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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