Word: xie
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...that get-out-of-town itch. "I didn't want to live next to my parents forever," she says. She scanned the papers for any opportunity, applying to schools and getting rejected, before she spotted a notice for a new school of film arts to be run by Xie Jin, a director whose career spanned 40 tumultuous years of Chinese history, from the Great Leap Forward in the late '50s to the market economy of the late...
...DIED. XIE XIANRONG, 37, one of China's most-wanted suspects, after he was shot during a police raid; near Zhanggang, Hubei province. Xie was wanted for the murders of four people in a September bank robbery and the 2001 killing of a cab driver. Xie was gunned down after he fired at officers who surrounded a fishing boat on which he was hiding, the Xinhua news agency reported...
...have started later than Russia or the U.S., but it's amazing how fast we've been able to do this." Xie Guangxuan, director of the mainland's China Rocket Design Department, on the manned space mission scheduled...
...next year, which will help spur demand for goods made elsewhere in Asia. Not every region is out of the woods; Hong Kong, for example, still faces record high unemployment and a big deficit, and deflation still lurks in Japan. But "we do have a fundamental recovery," says Andy Xie, economist at Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong. And he says it like he means...
...Ostensibly, that's good news for a city obsessed with maintaining its bill of good health. "My stocks are going up because Shanghai has escaped SARS," says Xie Lingzhen, as he scans the stock ticker at a local retail brokerage. "Other places in the world have been affected, but our future will continue brightly." To show just how serious Shanghai is about keeping the virus at bay, the municipal government earlier this month mandated a limited quarantine on anyone coming from a SARS-infected area?a policy that runs counter to Premier Wen Jiabao's vow last month...