Paulina Hartono is a graduate of UC Berkeley.
From The Economist.com: In readiness for the Olympic games, Beijing is putting the finishing touches to a colossal makeover: the world’s biggest airport terminal, skyscrapers, subway lines and lavish stadiums. It is guaranteed to impress the world. But the leadership is nervous. The games will be a magnet for China’s critics. At a time of […]
Read MoreFrom Los Angeles Times: Does she own jade jewelry worth hundreds of thousands of dollars or doesn’t she? Only her propaganda team knows for sure. The mysterious jewelry tale about Zhang Beili, wife of the Chinese premier, surfaced last month when two Taiwanese television stations ran a story about her interest in bling.
Read MoreFrom Danwei blog: For the last seven years, commuters on their way to work in Guiyang have found it hard to buy a morning paper. As part of a campaign to clean up the city’s roadways, the capital of Guizhou Province cleared its sidewalks in 2001 and has kept them free of vendors’ stalls, including […]
Read MoreFrom The New America Media: A long forgotten photo of a young woman strapping a Red Guard arm band on the communist leader has resurfaced on the Internet and brought new infamy to Song Binbin, now a scientist living in the United States. [Full Text]
Read MoreFrom The Los Angeles Times: They might have had a Christmas baby. But things went terribly wrong the day before Thanksgiving. It started with a bad cough. Li Liyun, a 22-year-old migrant worker, tried to ignore it because she couldn’t afford medicine. She certainly couldn’t afford a prenatal checkup. She and her partner, Xiao Zhijun, […]
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