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In Newsweek, artist Ai Weiwei writes a harsh assessment of his home city: Beijing is two cities. One is of power and of money. People don’t care who their neighbors are; they don’t trust you. The other city is one of...
Read MoreCharles Custer reports for Penn-Olson on regulations implemented last year which require people purchasing a new SIM card (ie a new cell phone number) to register with their real names: So, one year into this new system, how are...
Read MoreSounds emerged from the flooded mine where twenty-two miners are still trapped after almost a week, AP reports: The noises came from a 920-foot (280-meter) pipe that was drilled late Sunday to allow fresh air into the illegal...
Read MoreTrials have opened in the case of the monk who died from self-immolation in Sichuan Province, AP reports: The March 16 death of Rigzin Phuntsog, 16, was seen by fellow monks and observers as a political protest against...
Read MorePaul Mooney writes about increasingly tense relations between Beijing and the Vatican, with China ordaining bishops this past year in defiance of the Pope: “It’s a very sensitive time,” said a scholar in Hong...
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