Word: xinhua
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Xiguang Li, author and senior editor of the Xinhua News Agency in China, will research the birth of a new kind of journalism in a more market-driven Chinese society. Romanian journalist and political author Alina Pippidi-Mungiu will focus on television reform in East-central Europe...
...floods continue in China, both on the Songhua in the north and the Yangtze in the country's middle. China's Xinhua news agency expects more rain and rising water levels on the Songhua at least through tomorrow...
...unbridled boom has brought wealth, yes, but it's wildly uneven. The typical Sunday shoppers crowding middle-class Beijing Street are looking, not buying. Most of Guangzhou's workers have little disposable income. Two 18-year-old youths stand in the spiffed-up Xinhua bookstore gazing at a paperback that at 8 yuan is beyond their means. For fun, they go to the zoo because it's free...
BEIJING: China announced another round of military exercises near Taiwan in its continued effort to intimidate the island before its upcoming election. The official Xinhua News Agency said China will conduct joint ground, naval and air exercises in the Taiwan Straits starting Monday, even as it declared the end of eight days of missile launches near the island. China has said that the exercises are intended to quash pro-independence sentiment on Taiwan as it prepares for its first direct presidential election on March 23. The new exercises would straddle the election in which pro-independence President Lee Teng...
China denies having abducted the Dalai Lama's golden child but has started a propaganda campaign against him, saying his family was "notorious among their neighbors" and the boy himself once drowned a dog, which the official Xinhua news agency proclaims is "a heinous crime in the eyes of the Buddha." Such assertions are unlikely to sway Tibetans to Beijing's choice...