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Since then, the Longshan townspeople have made at least six appeals to county and city authorities. Some officials offered help but never gave it; others ignored them. Hoping the provincial government might act even if local officials wouldn't, Su traveled 11 hours by bus in July to the Heilong...
Less traveled is the northeastern loop, where the nascent tourist industry could take "Ho Chi Minh slept here" as its motto. Cao Bang province near the Chinese border is where the founder of independent Vietnam and his Viet Minh guerrillas hid from the French colonial army in the 1940s. The...
His lucky break quickly turned sour when the Democracy Wall movement broke out and the minister who helped Zhang was publicly attacked for using personal influence to bend the rules. Mention of Zhang's unorthodox admission cropped up in the "big-character posters" that festooned the school's walls. Added...
Zhang now steers clear of controversial subject matter, embracing instead projects that take risks in their technical execution. In 1999 he mounted an epic production of Puccini's Turandot in Beijing's Forbidden City. Last year he directed a ballet adapted from Raise the Red Lantern. The central government has...
Nevertheless, a few do make it home. Two months ago, Hasan's compound in Sumedang received a visit by a team of officials from the West Java provincial authorities, the Foreign Ministry and the UNHCR. Accompanying them was Agustino Pascual, Zachariah's father, very much alive. The father hugged his...