Word: gongli
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...administrators at the U.S. Department of Transportation noticed a problem: requests for information bombarding their network server. It looked like a classic denial-of-services attack, which overloads servers and crashes them. The perpetrator appeared to be a server in Maryland run by practitioners of the spiritual movement Falun Gong, which is persecuted in China. In fact, the Falun Gong server itself had come under attack by hackers who sought to disable both sites and leave Falun Gong bearing the blame. But the hackers blundered, leaving a digital address traceable to a computer at 14 East Changan Avenue in Beijing...
...abuse of psychiatry to detain and institutionalize its political opponents at least equals and probably surpasses similar practices in the former Soviet Union, the report said. After declining from a peak in the 1960s, political psychiatry has been revived as a result of the crackdown on the Falun Gong sect. A Hong Kong court found 16 Falun Gong followers guilty of causing a public obstruction by demonstrating outside China's main office in the territory. INDONESIA Democratic Reform The world's most populous Muslim state abolished an electoral system that let President Suharto hold power for 32 years. The People...
...confused with Falun Gong, a quasi-religious and political movement that uses similar exercises, Tai Chi combines intense mental focus with deliberate, graceful movements that improve strength, agility and--particularly important for the elderly--balance...
...Chen is able to access a blocked Chinese news site, using a proxy server that cloaks his online movements. Next to him, a friend uses the same technique to get to a porn site. Four seats down, a thirtysomething woman takes a covert look at the teachings of Falun Gong, the outlawed meditation sect...
...city. In its geography lies its spirit. Stretching over seven decades, and narrated by three different characters, Lanchester's novel tells the story of Hong Kong: its murky past, its riotous rise, its uncertain present. Lanchester paints an exquisitely detailed picture of the city the Chinese call hueng gong, or fragrant harbor. But this landscape?devoid of human emotion?is oddly empty, much like his maps, which are clean and stark, with just a smattering of well-known buildings. Fragrant Harbour wants to be an intimate epic, but it's too rushed to be epic, too reticent to be intimate...