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...activists succeed, they might not have to. The visitors at the graveside included leaders of Beijing environmental groups, reporters from national newspapers and a film crew. Together they make up a loose network opposed to what they consider the devastation of natural resources in a part of the country where snowmelt from the Himalayas irrigates rivers throughout China and Southeast Asia. Already the network has helped delay approval of two impoundments on the upper Yangtze and Salween rivers. Yet in taking on state-run companies and political interests, the environmentalists face daunting odds. Says activist Xue Ye of the Beijing...
...China" is a global brand; it has been marketed as such to Western consumers, who don't think long about China's prisons, its taste for capital punishment or its scant regard for workers' rights. Just keep the cheap stuff coming! Like most countries, China has a spy network. Big deal. Nevertheless, it's good for the Australian public occasionally to see beyond the twaddle of "special friendships" and to enter, for a moment, the less congenial world inhabited by Chinese dissidents - and even by ordinary Chinese migrants. Australia would rather not contemplate the alternative to a friendly China...
...reduced cash settlements for newly arrived defectors from $36,000 to $20,000, money that many used to rescue relatives stuck in North Korea and China. "The government is trying so hard to discourage defectors from coming to South Korea," says Park Sang Hak, an activist with the Democracy Network Against North Korean Gulag, a Seoul-based NGO. "They are telling us: 'You are not welcome here anymore...
...SEEKING ASYLUM. CHEN YONGLIN, 37, political-affairs consul at the Chinese consulate in Sydney; in Australia. Chen told Australian immigration authorities last week that he was part of a 1,000-strong Chinese spy network in the country responsible for keeping tabs on Chinese dissidents and members of the Falun Gong religious group, and that he would "rather die" than return home. His request has not yet been granted and he remains in hiding in Australia with his family. Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott said Chen "is at no risk of being sent back to China." A Chinese Foreign Ministry...
...married four times between the ages of 19 and 29. I never married again. Rolfe [Tessem, a former network-news producer and director] and I are celebrating 19 years together in September, but we have never married. I think I've discovered the secret. I'm not very good at marriage. Why ruin a good thing? We own a production company together. We live together. We love each other. Our lives are joined in many, many ways. I don't know how we could be more married...