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From the New York Times: Young Zheng’s first offense was flying into the United States illegally as a 14-year-old boy with phony papers supplied by Chinese human smugglers known as snakeheads. But perhaps his biggest blunder, his lawyers say, was complying with immigration rules after he was apprehended and released, rather than fleeing and working […]
Read MoreFrom The China Daily: China on Thursday said it will expand aid to rural couples with only one child to promote family planning, but will not ease its three-decade-old one-child policy to limit population growth. China limits most couples to one child, but lets some poor couples have a second child if the first is […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A senior Australian minister said on Thursday that a Chinese diplomatic defector pleading for political asylum in Australia is in no danger of being sent home. Chen Yonglin, a 37-year-old political affairs consul at China’s Sydney consulate, has told Australian authorities he fears for his family’s safety and would rather die than return […]
Read MoreFrom the Boston Globe: Chinese, a language most school systems don’t offer until high school, if at all, is becoming popular in elementary classrooms around Greater Boston, as well as elsewhere in the nation. Spanish still reigns as the most popular language, but parents and lawmakers hope that Chinese soon will become commonly taught. School […]
Read MoreFrom the Sydney Morning Herald: Amid secret passwords, mysterious faxes and last-minute arrangements to protect him from the alleged Chinese spy network he once worked for, the asylum seeker Hao Fengjun emerged from hiding to talk of the Secret Force. This force, the 32-year-old Chinese police intelligence analyst says, runs spies in Australia and other […]
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