Archive for March, 2007

We shall not, we shall not be moved…

Friday, March 30th, 2007

Back in the early 1980’s, this was the kind of issue that would have been resolved by the A-Team — Hannibal, Mr T, Face etc would have come along, designed an improbable fighting machine and sent these developers packing, before heading off in their funky van.
A property dispute in Chongqing in south-western China has created [...]

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Love at altitude — world’s tallest man gets hitched

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

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Watching the Children of Huang Shi

Monday, March 26th, 2007

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Hong Kong racing stunned by discovery of poison darts

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

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Britart comes to China

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007

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Blogger crackdown continues

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

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Gong Li at the National People’s Congress

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

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Thoughts from a journalist based in Beijing, China.