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...reputation before they cross the border. That doesn't stop them. At El Carmen Frontera, Guatemalan immigration officials wait for the next busload of deportees. "I don't believe this will solve the problem," says one of them, with some reason. Already, he says, Central Americans are dodging the crackdown, using remote routes to cross the border into Mexico. Two thousand miles to the north, Mexican immigrants to the U.S. are doing precisely the same thing...
...Chinese authorities say they are dealing with the triad menace. Last month, police in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau conducted a week-long crackdown on gangs that resulted in more than 1,000 arrests; some 35,000 police took part in Guangdong alone. But many believe the crack-down was mainly cosmetic and will leave the criminal gangs largely unharmed...
...gender balance. There are now 117 boys born for every 100 girls. "Every girl I meet has already had several marriage offers," says Gong Min, 24, a computer salesman. In some rural areas, a trade in abducted brides is burgeoning. Last year 110,000 women were freed during a crackdown on human trafficking, but most will never be found. "When we started our family-planning policy 20 years ago, we had no idea of the social problems that would follow," concedes the State Family Planning Commission's Zhao...
...such talk. Just two weeks before the vote, the party celebrated its 80th birthday by ordering all cinemas to show propaganda films with titles like Wedding Ceremony at the Execution Ground. The fixation on killing fields extended beyond celluloid: China has executed 1,700 people this year in a crackdown on crime, more than the rest of the world combined for the past three years, according to Amnesty International. And Beijing recently ordered newspapers to avoid reporting corruption scandals, religious practices or the private lives of leaders. "The real question in China is the survivability of the party," says Marc...
...subtitles under images of Premier Zhu Rongji reading, "Former follower of Falun Gong," the banned spiritual practice. The foreign press has suffered, too. For the past 16 weeks, China has banned newsstand sales of TIME after the magazine published an article in February on Falun Gong. The on going crackdown has spooked some of China's most daring editors. "We killed a story on a corruption scandal," says a reporter at China News Weekly. "It's too sensitive...