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Fake story reflects real divide between rural, urban Chinese

March 21, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

A woman from a big Chinese city visits her boyfriend’s rural hometown and is so appalled by the squalor she sees that she dumps him. The story was fake, but it swept through Chinese media because it highlighted a deep societal gap that the ruling Communist Party has vowed to close.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Associated Press, Beijing-based Renmin University, China, Chinese New Year, Communist Party, National People, Premier Li Keqiang, Rural Chinese, Tang Yinghong, Tsinghua University, Wu Qiang, Xinhua News Agency, Zheng Fengtian, Zhu Liangyu

Nepal struggles with challenges — Many residents, their lives at risk, face bleak existence

December 13, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Binaj Gurubacharya YA Associated Press KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Shiva Parwar has been camping on the pavement for five days, waiting in line for cooking gas. There are 521 gas cylinders ahead of his, and not even the dealer knows when more fuel will arrive, thanks to a two-month-long border blockade that shows no […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, Communist Party, India, KATHMANDU, Madan Gautam, Nepali Congress, Pradip Gyawali, Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, Ram Hari Khatiwada, Sundari Lama, Top Ten Momo Restaurant, Upendra Yadav, Vol 34 No 51 | December 12 - December 18, adoption

China breaks up $64-billion illegal banking network

November 28, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Erika Kinetz Associated Press SHANGHAI (AP) — Authorities in China have cracked the country’s biggest-ever underground banking network, which handled illegal foreign exchange transactions worth 410 billion yuan ($64 billion), police said. The bust comes amid a month-long crackdown on illicit outflows, which officials say disrupt China’s financial management, facilitate corruption and help terrorists […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Associated Press, Beijing, Brian Jackson, China, Chinese, Communist Party, Fu Ting, Hong Kong, Vol 34 No 49 | November 28 - December 4, Yin Zhongli, Yu Bing, Zhao Mouyi

Chinese jeers over BMW crash probe highlight ‘trust crisis’

September 18, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Didi Tang Associated Press BEIJING (AP)—When authorities in an eastern city announced that a BMW driver involved in a crash that killed two people was suffering from “acute transient psychotic disorder,’’ Chinese online jeered so loudly that it aroused Communist Party concerns about a public trust crisis. Some initial missteps by police in Nanjing […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: Associated Press, BMW, Beijing News, China, Chinese, Communist Party, DNA, Shi Shusi, Sun Daojin, Tang Yinghong, Vol 34 No 39 | September 19 - September 25, editorial

Shedding light on China’s Communist Party history — An interview with Sidney Rittenberg (Part one of a three-part series)

August 27, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Wen Liu Special to Northwest Asian Weekly In recent months, U.S.-China relations have been described as “at a tipping point” and “stubbornly cool” by prominent China watchers like David Lampton and Orville Schell. Are their observations right? We’ve heard tough words from Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter over China’s island constructions in the South […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2015, Anna Louise Strong, Chairman Mao, Chinese, Communist Party, Cultural Revolution, Indonesia, Liu One, Mao Zedong, Party Central Committee Meeting Hall, Rittenberg Partly, Sidney Rittenberg Part, South China Sea, Tiananmen Square, Vol 34 No 36 | August 29 - September 4, Xi Jinping, attention

EDITORIAL: Happy birthday! — Grace Lee Boggs turns 100

July 9, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Asian Weekly would like to pay tribute to an amazing woman, and not just because she recently celebrated her 100th birthday. We have been fortunate to have Grace Lee Boggs as an activist for the past century. Tiffany Ran interviewed Boggs in 2012 for the Weekly and Ran wrote: “In the early 1930s, at […]

Filed Under: Editorials Tagged With: 2012, 2015, Asian Americans, Barnard College, Bryn Mar College, Chinese, Communist Party, First World War, Grace Lee Boggs, Great Depression, Regarding Albert Einstein, Russian Revolution, Tiffany Ran, Vol 34 No 29 | July 11 - July 17

Strange and strong couples — Connecting through work, awkwardness, and romance

June 5, 2015 By Samantha Pak

By Samantha Pak Northwest Asian Weekly The Girl Who Tweeted Wolf (Hobson & Choi: Case One) By Nick Bryan CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014 On the first day of her work experience (similar to a job shadow or internship) at private detective John Hobson’s London office, 16-year-old Angelina Choi is asked to bring his business […]

Filed Under: On the Shelf Tagged With: 2013, 2015, China, Communist Party, Eleanor Douglas, Eleanor Park, John Hobson, London, Mariner Books, Northwest Asian Weekly, Samantha Pak, Song Yuhua, Thomas Greene, United States, Vol 34 No 24 | June 6 - June 12, social media

Seattle International Film Festival represents!

May 29, 2015 By Tiffany Ran

The Chinese Mayor Reviewed by Tiffany Ran In the last 1600 years, the city of Datong has degenerated from ancient cultural capital to one of China’s most polluted cities. “The Chinese Mayor” follows controversial mayor Geng Yanbo as he strives to revitalize Datong and lessen the city’s economic reliance on coal. In the process, Geng […]

Filed Under: At the Movies Tagged With: 2015, China, Communist Party, Geng Yanbo, India, Lincoln Square, Pacific Place, Ravi Patel, SIFF, Seattle International Film Festival, Tiffany Ran, United States, Vol 34 No 23 | May 30 - June 5

China activist more determined after lockup

April 25, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Didi Tang and Jack Chang Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The most prominent of five recently released Chinese feminists feels her dedication to activism has grown only stronger after spending 37 days in detention with interrogators who blew smoke onto her face and insulted her sexual orientation, her girlfriend, and her, her lawyer said. […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, AP, Associated Press, Beijing, China, Chinese, Communist Party, Eve Ensler, Feminists Li Tingting, Foreign Ministry, HIV, Hillary Clinton, International Women, Vagina Monologues, Vol 34 No 18 | April 25 - May 1, Wang Yu, Wei Tingting, attention, social media

Ex-top China military official, facing bribery probe, dies

March 21, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

AP Wire Service BEIJING (AP)  — The Chinese military’s former second-highest ranking officer, Xu Caihou, who had been under investigation for alleged bribe-taking and brokering of promotions, has died in a hospital of cancer, the state Xinhua News Agency reported early Monday. He was 71. A former deputy chairman of the ruling Communist Party’s Central […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, 2015, Beijing, CMC, Central Committee, Central Military Commission, Communist Party, Ex-top China, Gu Junshan, Hong Kong-based, Hu Jintao, Liberation Army, Phoenix Weekly, President Xi Jinping, Vol 34 No 13 | March 21 - March 27, Xinhua News Agency, Xu Caihou

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