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... ...full story at NBC World Blog
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Total Solar Eclipse 2008 »
YouTube video On August 1, a total solar eclipse was visible in parts of Canada, northern Greenland, the Arctic, central Russia, Mongolia, and China. The eclipse swept across Earth in a narrow path that begins in Canada's northern province of Nunavut and ends in... |
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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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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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Flowers for the dead...and the living » NBC World Blog 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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A Chinese bookworm or censorship? » NBC World Blog By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer CHENGDU, Sichuan Province – It wasn’t until moving permanently to Beijing that I realized how much of a "shu daizi" the Chinese might consider me. "Shu daizi" literally means "book idiot," and is the Mandarin-lang... |
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China's quest to build the biggest & tallest » NBC World Blog By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer HANGZHOU, China – It's become a truism (and a complaint) that most stories that take us out of Beijing require a flight, plus a four-hour drive. In the past two months, our NBC News team has criss-crossed t... |
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