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...Games from 1960 to '76. The pair racked up more than a dozen medals between them. Naoya and Akihiro are competing on a less formidable team that lags behind the dominant Russians and Chinese. Still, Japan's fortunes may finally be changing. At the World Championships in Tianjin, China last year, 23-year-old Tsukahara nabbed the silver in the all-around event. With top Russian gymnast Nikolay Krukov recovering from a pulled Achilles tendon and China's Lu Yufu out of competition with a sore neck, Tsukahara has a legitimate shot at Sydney gold, especially in the all-around...
...money to get this," he says, watching the flow of chips across the dice table, "mostly to pay off the local officials. And they will probably shut it down in a couple of months anyway. I have done it in a Beijing suburb and in Tianjin already. They shut me down there too." Gambling? "If you want to win, you have to struggle...
...journey to that address has been an amazing one. Born in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin and raised in a single room in Beijing by his father during the Cultural Revolution, Yan attended a school that was less than educational: in the afternoons, the children manufactured envelopes. In 1980, as China was starting to open to the outside world, Yan's grandfather reactivated old international links from before the 1949 communist revolution. (Granddad had founded Tianjin's branch of the Rotary Club in the 1920s.) Yan got a Rotary scholarship and was the first high school student in China...
Despite all the rhetoric condemning abuse, says Nan, statistics like these prove that domestic violence is "institutionalized" in our society. It was not what she expected to find when she immigrated to America four years ago from Tianjin, China. The problems here, she says, are too reminiscent of how women are "suppressed" in China. And that is why she feels compelled to do something about...
...case in point is a chemical company known as Tianjin Bohai, which trades in Hong Kong. I heard about this one from Bill Kaye, who runs the Hong Kong- based Asian Hedge Fund for private clients. According to Kaye, before Tianjin Bohai went public, it produced caustic soda ash, a valuable commodity in China. As soon as the firm got cash, it started lending it to other companies. From what I could gather, Chinese companies maintain a close relationship with the state enterprises from which they came and sometimes can be pressured into making loans and even donations to their...