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INDICTED. ZHAO YAN, 43, New York Times researcher; on charges of revealing state secrets; in Beijing. While the indictment does not refer to a specific story, Zhao was arrested in September 2004, days after a Times report correctly predicted that former President Jiang Zemin was about to step down from his post as head of the military. Zhao, whom the Times has said did not provide the newspaper with state secrets, faces a 10-year prison sentence if convicted...
...elected educational/political chair, which will be her first office in AAA. Ivy A. Lee ’09 and Chen Li ’09 will serve as social chairs. Yi Chen ’09 and Alex C. Liu ’08 were elected outreach chairs. Jimmy Zhao ’08 won the position of publicity chair, and Amy G. Zhou ’07 maintained her place as webmaster...
...Half of our proceeds will benefit Chinatown, which is the second-poorest neighborhood in Boston,” said Jimmy Zhao ’08, one of the cultural co-chairs of the AAA. “The money will be going to the Chinatown After-School program, run by the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...insist they have not been given enough. In May and June, police arrested nine investors for protesting, and a Beijing-based lawyer was detained after filing a lawsuit against the Shaanxi provincial government on the investors' behalf. "We have not launched a political movement," says a peasant prospector named Zhao Suiling, who says he was compensated at 20? on the dollar for his oil wells. "We only want to protect our businesses...
Much of the credit for Sichuan's transformation belongs to Premier Zhao Ziyang, a Deng protg who served as the party's provincial secretary from 1975 to 1980. Zhao helped introduce the contract-responsibility system, the bedrock of rural reforms, in 1977. Families and individuals were assigned plots in return for promising to meet harvest quotas. Surplus crops could be sold to the state at higher prices. Eventually, peasants were also allowed to sell the extra grain at market. The experiment worked so well that it was adopted as a national policy in late...