Word: hua
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...initially only avilable on its website, are due in October. But because of the server crash, Mejia said that he has resorted to e-mailing the applications. Mejia also said that potential host universities in Asia have been unable to gain important information about HCAP, stunting progress. Zhang Yi-Hua, a vice dean at Fudan University in Shanghai, wrote in an e-mail that he hoped the website would be fixed soon because he would “definitely need to know more details” before committing to HCAP. “This is where Harvard students will...
...John Kamm Executive Director, Dui Hua Foundation, San Francisco President Bush should surprise President Hu by putting human rights at the top of the agenda. When China releases political and religious prisoners?labor organizers, peaceful protesters, journalists, scholars dealing in "state secrets," Catholic priests and Tibetan nuns?its image for the American people and their representatives in Washington improves more than when it buys a fleet of airplanes or announces another round of six-party talks on North Korea...
...frequent visitor to Thailand and have had your fill of the capital's shopping and traffic, chances are you'll be arriving at Don Muang airport with but one desire: to get to the coast as fast as possible. There's good news if your chosen resort is Hua Hin. After a three-year hiatus, commercial flights have resumed between Bangkok and the seaside sanctuary most favored by Thailand's royal family. With the train taking more than four hours-and the tiresome 200-km road trip lasting almost as long, depending on traffic conditions-the new, thrice-daily airborne...
...sleepy town where Wang, 54, made his base? It's a booming metropolis of 12 million people--one of dozens of cities that have sprouted across the nation seemingly overnight. "You blink in China, and another building goes up," says Wang. --By Hannah Beech/ Shanghai, with reporting by Bu Hua/ Shenzhen...
Johnson pens these portraits in clean, spare prose, allowing the poignant stories to shine. One has the sense of being transported bodily to China; Johnson’s evocative descriptions of various Chinese locales are reminiscent of such fiction writers as Ha Jin and Yu Hua...