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...Huang Yong, who also works in the Beijing bureau, visited another hospital and discovered more than 100 SARS patients who weren't supposed to be there. Two weeks ago, he and Jakes reported that just before a delegation from the World Health Organization arrived at yet another hospital, 31 coughing staff members who had caught SARS from patients had been loaded into ambulances and driven around until the inspectors left (TIME, April 28). Hannah Beech, our Shanghai bureau chief, discovered evidence of how the disease was spreading through the interior of China, when she overheard meetings at which hospital staff...
...this work has been done under very trying conditions, with our journalists at risk both reporting the story and working and living in Hong Kong. Karl was so concerned about how much time Huang Yong was spending in hospitals that he quarantined him for eight days. Some staff members have sent their families abroad for a few weeks so they at least get a break from the atmosphere of fear...
...Korea. At each of the troupe’s performances, Han Ma-Eum will select one or two pieces from its standard repertoire, which includes such traditional and modern works as “Young mam” (originally a celebration of the harvest, Ahn says), “Yong ho” and “Utdari”—rhythmic music...
...across the DMZ since the end of the Korean War was a poignant, intensely emotional moment for Koreans. Hyundai Asan plans to pour $250 million?for starters?into a planned industrial park and tourist project in Kaesong, a city barely an hour from Seoul. Says Kaesong city councilor Jong Yong Chol: "The U.S. maneuvers against our country are getting more and more severe. But the people of the North and the South see this project as crucial to reunification...
...Pham Ngoc Canh was a 23-year-old Vietnamese exchange student in Pyongyang. There he fell in love with Ri Yong-hui, 24, a North Korean factory worker. Their governments were communist soul mates, but relationships with foreigners were taboo in both countries. "I saw no chance," says Canh. Both were devastated when he left in 1973. A year later, Ri asked a Vietnamese student to smuggle a letter to Canh. Thus began three decades of furtive exchanges...