White House communications director Anita Dunn fired back at criticism from TV commentator Glenn Beck on Friday, saying that a Mao Tse-tung quote Beck took issue with was picked up from legendary GOP strategist Lee Atwater.
Soon after I first came to visit China in the autumn of 1971, I saw a contingent of militia soldiers doing marching drills in Tiananmen Square. I was told they were rehearsing for the annual National Day parade on October 1, which people eagerly awaited.
One of the most telling things about China's health care is a quote I once read from a construction worker who earns about $150 a month: "If you get cancer in China, don't bother going to the hospital. They might not cure you, but you will go broke."
They're known as the "post 1980s" kids or the "Tiananmen-plus-20" generation: 200 million-strong, Web-savvy, pop-culture-conscious and decidedly apolitical.
Unregistered churches are attracting millions of worshippers in China, exposing an enduring rift between the government and the Vatican.
At least 16 police officers, including five women, died in a shootout that erupted after suspected Maoists ambushed them Thursday in central India, a state official said.
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the Tibetan people's peaceful uprising against Communist China's repression in Tibet.
Kenny Kan started customizing bikes more than 30 years ago, when he inherited his brother's old two-wheeler.
An aggressive tabloid newspaper has had its Web site censored and could face further punishment by China's media authorities for running a photograph from the still-taboo 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement
Only the Olympics could bump Mao Zedong, the founding leader of communist China, off a Chinese banknote
White House communications director Anita Dunn fired back at criticism from TV commentator Glenn Beck on Friday, saying that a Mao Tse-tung quote Beck took issue with was picked up from legendary GOP strategist Lee Atwater.
Soon after I first came to visit China in the autumn of 1971, I saw a contingent of militia soldiers doing marching drills in Tiananmen Square. I was told they were rehearsing for the annual National Day parade on October 1, which people eagerly awaited.
One of the most telling things about China's health care is a quote I once read from a construction worker who earns about $150 a month: "If you get cancer in China, don't bother going to the hospital. They might not cure you, but you will go broke."
They're known as the "post 1980s" kids or the "Tiananmen-plus-20" generation: 200 million-strong, Web-savvy, pop-culture-conscious and decidedly apolitical.
Unregistered churches are attracting millions of worshippers in China, exposing an enduring rift between the government and the Vatican.
At least 16 police officers, including five women, died in a shootout that erupted after suspected Maoists ambushed them Thursday in central India, a state official said.
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the Tibetan people's peaceful uprising against Communist China's repression in Tibet.
Kenny Kan started customizing bikes more than 30 years ago, when he inherited his brother's old two-wheeler.
An aggressive tabloid newspaper has had its Web site censored and could face further punishment by China's media authorities for running a photograph from the still-taboo 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement
Only the Olympics could bump Mao Zedong, the founding leader of communist China, off a Chinese banknote
I'm on the highest point of Pyongyang, and I've just done something shamefully cynical.
Cameron Diaz apologized Sunday for a fashion faux pas of the political sort.
Former Chinese leader Mao Zedong dreamed of a "great wall of stone" taming the mighty Yangtze River.
About 50 passengers riding on a train attacked by Maoist rebels Monday evening in a remote section of India were found safe early Tuesday, local police said.
Few doubt that the 2008 Summer Games to be held in Beijing will be the most spectacular and extravagant sporting event in the Olympic movement's history.
Cecilia Yeung bounded into the meeting room of the office in downtown Hong Kong, clapping to the beat of Chumbawamba's "I get knocked down, I get up again...."
Nepal's army claims Maoist rebels have abducted about 90 high school students from their classrooms last week.
A fierce battle between government forces and Maoist rebels in eastern Nepal has left at least 59 people dead.
Angela Yang is part of a small new revolution in China -- the stay-at-home mother.
Nepal's King Gyanendra has lifted a state of emergency that he imposed on February 1 after seizing control of the government
Taiwan's main opposition leader has called for the "building of a bridge" between the self-governed island and Beijing during a controversial visit to mainland China.
Mourning pilgrims have packed into churches in Rome to remember Pope John Paul II in services presided over by cardinals, who praised the late pontiff for touching hearts around the world.
Roman Catholic cardinals preparing to elect a new pope have unanimously decided not to talk with the media, a Vatican spokesman told reporters Saturday.
Nepal remains gripped by political tension, with rebels helping to break more than a hundred prisoners out of jail, and police quashing a protest in the capital Kathmandu.
Leaders from around the world have condemned the decision by Nepal's King Gyanendra to dismiss the government and declare a state of emergency.
King Gyanendra says he has dissolved the government of Nepal and has declared a state of emergency as he takes control of the Himalayan kingdom.
You can buy anything in modern Shanghai. Well, almost anything.
The CIA is offering a rare glimpse into its successes and failures at trying to understand China during its first communist decades in a huge cache of newly declassified documents released this week in Washington.
Maoists rebels have lifted a blockade that cut Nepal's capital Kathmandu off from the rest of the country for a week.
Nepal's capital Kathmandu has only a few days worth of fresh produce and cooking fuel, officials say, as a rebel blockade enters its third day.
Kathmandu has been cut off from the rest of the country for the second day of an indefinite blockade of the Nepalese capital by Maoists rebels.
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