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Keeping track of Kim Jong Il on his secret trips outside North Korea is a bit like trying to detect a subatomic particle: proof of his passing can be gleaned only from disturbances in his wake. Witness last week's surge in speculation when Kim was said to be visiting China, stopping in several cities before making his way to Beijing where it was thought?maybe?he might discuss the future of his nuclear-weapons program with Chinese leaders...
...Kim apparently arrived in China by train last Tuesday. Guests at a popular five-star hotel in Guangzhou were abruptly cleared out on Thursday without explanation; reporters then witnessed a large, official-looking motorcade arrive. The first confirmed sighting of the Dear Leader came on Friday, when he visited a university library in Guangzhou. Meanwhile North Korea and China remained characteristically mum on his movements, while South Korea has said it was completely in the dark. U.S. diplomat Christopher Hill said all he knew for sure was that he?Hill?definitely was headed for Beijing late last week to discuss...
...entirely different [cultural] vocabulary. They're dealing with oil and water." Nowhere is that incompatibility more deeply felt than in romance. Most Asian-immigrant parents encourage their children to find partners of the same ethnicity, and many of the kids see the advantages of doing so. As June Kim, a Korean-American copywriter in Philadelphia who is engaged to another Korean American, Shane Kim, sees it, "there are certain things you don't have to explain?cultural nuances, how our families work, our roles within our families." Yet 40% of Asian Americans ages 25 to 34 marry people of other...
...been joined by another pair, Zheng and her fellow Sichuan native Yan Zi, who captured three doubles titles last season. In singles competition, a baby-faced 20-year-old named Peng Shuai last year reached China's highest-ever world ranking, 31, by trouncing top-10 players such as Kim Clijsters and Elena Dementieva. Peng even made the semi-finals in a warm-up tournament to last year's Australian Open, and Chinese fans hope she can match that effort when the year-opening grand slam kicks off in Melbourne next week...
...Staff writer Victoria Kim can be reached at vkim@fas.harvard.edu...