Paulina Hartono is a graduate of UC Berkeley.
From The Taipei Times: Saturday’s legislative elections, in which the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won less than one-fourth of the seats, were a disaster for the party and its worst result in legislative elections since Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) became president in 1988. Saturday’s results raise two important questions. First, why did the DPP do so […]
Read MoreFrom St. Petersburg Times: It was a bumper year in 2007 for newspaper reports about the flow of people and objects between China and America. We read about tainted toothpaste coming here, Hollywood film crews going there to film the latest Survivor and Yao Ming crisscrossing the Pacific to marry in Shanghai and shoot baskets […]
Read MoreFrom PinoyPress: There is no simple description for the U.S.-China relationship. The two countries are bound together by a thick web of interactions that is growing denser on every level. That is to be expected of two countries with global interests and influence. But strains in bilateral relations are likely to grow in 2008. It […]
Read MoreBeijing based writer Xu Xing wrote following post on his Xintianyou blog, thanks to M. J.’s translation: The phone rang suddenly last Thursday at about two in the morning. An old friend of mine, a Latin American girl, was crying to me on the line: “Old Xu my friend, I can’t not call you…I had […]
Read MoreRemember last year’s “Nail House” story ( pictures) ? Here is an interesting variation on the theme. In the following photo, published with a report from Xinhua dated January 5, 2008, nearly 200 Chinese flags hang from apartment buildings in a housing complex in Xi’an’s Stele Forest district that is being demolished. In December, according […]
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