Natalie Ornell

Natalie Ornell is a Master's student in Asian Studies at UC Berkeley. She completed her undergraduate degree in East Asian Studies and English at Wellesley College. At Wellesley, she freelanced for an immigrant-focused newspaper in Boston's Chinatown, the Sampan, and also interned as a reporter at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. She currently serves as an Ambassador for the television program, LinkAsia, in San Francisco. You can read her blog on Asia-related events at UC Berkeley by visiting http://asiaberkeley.tumblr.com.

One Month Cocoons Draw New Moms

A report on The World discusses the Chinese tradition called “zuo yue zi”, when women enter a month of bed rest with their babies after giving birth. Ruth Morris reports that in China’s expanding confinement...

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China Reacts To Morsi’s Fall

The widespread democracy protests in Egypt that accompanied the ousting of Mohammed Morsi from presidential office will both harden Beijing’s grip on power  as well as draw its focus on economic interests in the Middle...

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Check The Date On Those Chicken Feet

Police in Nanning have confiscated twenty tons of smuggled chicken feet including some with labels from 1967, according to Shanghai Daily. Some are doubtful that the feet, found in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of...

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