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... ...full story at NBC World Blog
from NBC World Blog on Wed, Jul 16 2008
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| 16 Aug 08 |
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Underage gymnasts : Is China cheating? »
YouTube video Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government's news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this week. [ 15 AUGUST 15 2008 ]
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| 18 Jul 08 |
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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... |
| 08 Aug 08 |
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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... |
| 10 Jun 09 |
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China starts catching up on climate change » NBC World Blog 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... |
| 09 Feb 09 |
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China outpaces the U.S. in car sales » NBC World Blog By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer BEIJING – It looks like China may have overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest auto market. Official figures are due out this week that will show, for the first time ever, more vehicles were ... |
| 06 Mar 09 |
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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... |