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...Other talk-radio hosts have faced similar threats?and more?for their outspoken ways. In the mid-'80s, Jun Pala, a firebrand radio host in the southern Philippine city of Davao had his program interrupted when an assailant shot him in the recording booth. The gunman was believed to be a communist insurgent, angry at Pala's vocal anticommunist stance. This year, Pala was shot at again, this time by men in police uniforms. Although Pala escaped unscathed, two of his bodyguards were seriously injured. A fellow Filipino radio broadcaster wasn't so lucky. The same day Pala was attacked...
...more. In villages on the outskirts of Beijing, terrified citizens have set up blockades to bar outsiders from entering. The capital is buzzing with paranoid rumors, for instance that the government is on the verge of closing all public places. "I know this is probably a rumor," says Yu Jun, 32, as he stocked up on supplies at a grocery store. "But right now I'd rather believe rumors than what the government tells...
...Qian Jun, a professor of literature at the City University of Hong Kong, believes the best literature about China will come from middle-class, Western-educated Chinese returnees. "Critical thinking and a universal perspective on human life are foundations for great literature. Such quality and insight, plus the observation of China's sweeping socioeconomic changes, can lead Chinese literature into a mature stage...
...Fashion: Jun Takahashi
...Fashion: Jun Takahashi