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Chinese applications to U.S. schools skyrocket
Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:55 AM EST
BEIJING – Wenzy Duan dreams about becoming a delegate to the United Nations. “I know this [ambition] is pretty high,” said the 17-year old Beijing native. “But I think I can give it a shot.” To prepare, Duan wants to study internati …
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As North Korea mourns, its neighbor shrugs
Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:35 AM EST
SEOUL, South Korea — As one journalist put it, it said how much we all knew about North Korea that for the better part of Wednesday morning, most of the world remained in the dark about just when — if at all — the state funeral for the country's late lead …
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A contagion of conflict in China?
Thu Dec 22, 2011 9:14 AM EST
By Adrienne Mong and Bo Gu HAIMEN, Guangdong Province—It wouldn’t have been fair or accurate to call it a China Spring, but for a moment it was worth wondering: Was this the beginning of a Guangdong Spring? Since September, residents in a fishing village called Wukan …
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Remembering North Korea's 'Dear Leader'
Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:40 AM EST
BEIJING — The news that North Korea’s “Dear Leader” Kim Jong Il had died made its way to the Chinese capital mid-Monday morning. Very soon, police tape surrounded the North Korean embassy, where its national flag was lowered to half-staff. State-run …
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China begins to admit 'fog' is really smog
Tue Dec 6, 2011 6:25 AM EST
BEIJING—While China’s chief climate negotiator is getting rock star treatment at the Durban climate summit this week, his peers back in the capital are suffering a third straight day of foul air. As a leading Canadian newspaper put it, China provided “the few g …
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A smog by any other name...
Mon Dec 5, 2011 4:22 AM EST
By Adrienne Mong and Bo Gu BEIJING — If there were one place that is living proof that global carbon dioxide emissions in 2010 jumped the largest amount on record, it’s got to be the Middle Kingdom. Emissions leapt 5.9 per cent last year, according to the Global Carbo …
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Counting China's wild pandas
Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:05 AM EST
YINGJING, SICHUAN—The panda was always one of my favorite animals. Until I found myself slipping and sliding down a steep muddy mountain slope in southwestern Sichuan, looking for panda poop. To be precise, someone else was searching. My colleagues and I were just at …
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About that van crash in China...
Thu Nov 17, 2011 2:30 AM EST
BEIJING – When news emerged that a vehicle carrying 64 people but designed for only nine had collided with a truck on Wednesday morning in the northwestern province of Gansu, it was hard not to wonder, "How in the world did they fit all those passengers into a tiny vehicle? …
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Ai Weiwei tackles tax bill, with Chinese help
Fri Nov 11, 2011 5:48 AM EST
BEIJING – As the deadline approaches for paying a whopping tax bill of $2.4 million, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has collected nearly half that amount from supporters across China. “I’m very surprised,” said the 54-year old Ai in his studio …
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Beijing residents call foul over the air
Wed Nov 9, 2011 4:46 AM EST
BEIJING—For the past month, while I was pinballing from North Africa to Europe, something from afar became abundantly clear—unlike the sky that has blanketed the Chinese capital this autumn. Disgruntlement amongst Beijing residents with the quality of air appears to …
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Chinese senior citizens do Lady Gaga
Tue Nov 8, 2011 11:10 AM EST
EN ROUTE BACK TO BEIJING -- We like to lament the state of Chinese television. It's pretty awful. But then there's Hunan TV. With its hit reality TV shows, it's possibly the nation's most popular broadcaster and reaches millions of viewers. And just based on this one …
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In China: Man bags and make-up for men
Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:10 PM EDT
BEIJING – Xin Xin is a 24-year-old west Beijing native who runs her own media consultancy. In 2006, she bought a limited edition Mini Cooper GP. Only three of them exist in China. Two years later, with her parents’ help, she forked over $200,000 in cash f …
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China moves from tea to 'black gold'
Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:42 AM EDT
PU'ER, YUNNAN PROVINCE – The name of this area is synonymous with the delicate leaf prized by tea aficionados in China and beyond. For at least 2,000 years, families have cultivated Pu'er tea in the rolling hills of Yunnan, bordering Myanmar. The te …
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China carefully marks 1911 revolution
Mon Oct 10, 2011 2:34 AM EDT
BEIJING—For a significant centennial, it’s not getting the fanfare we’ve grown used to witnessing in China. Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution, which began on October 10, 1911. The armed uprising ended not just the Qing dynasty (1 …
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For Chinese winner's wife, Nobel is no prize
Fri Oct 7, 2011 6:41 AM EDT
BEIJING—A year ago today, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Liu Xiaobo, a writer and activist imprisoned in a northeastern Chinese prison. Today he remains in jail for the crime of “inciting subversion of state power,” serving out an 11-year sentence. His wi …
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Kabul rocks... with music
Mon Oct 3, 2011 6:21 AM EDT
By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Correspondent KABUL — For once, it’s not a deadly explosion that’s rocking the Afghan capital. Just a deafening one. Electric guitars. Drums. Bass guitars. And a whole lot of moshing. “I want to welcome …
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US envoy to China's top priority: jobs back home
Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:31 AM EDT
By NBC News' Adrienne Mong and Ed Flanagan BEIJING—It’s been often said that the Chinese are stealing American jobs. Now it sounds like they’re creating them. At least this week it has seemed so. First off, the new U.S.
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In Beijing, 40,000 students stranded
Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:26 AM EDT
By Adrienne Mong and Bo Gu BEIJING—With roughly two weeks to go before the start of the new academic year, Yang Hui and her cousin Yang Ying abruptly found themselves with no school to attend. “They didn’t say anything,” said Yang Hui, a 15-year old who w …
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The "ABCs" of Being Ambassador to China
Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:33 AM EDT
BEIJING—The new U.S. ambassador to China made waves even before he landed on these shores. Over the weekend, Gary Locke--the former U.S.
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A Silk Road culture pushed to the brink
Fri Aug 5, 2011 10:47 AM EDT
KASHGAR, XINJIANG—Just days after the latest violence struck China’s far northwestern region, we expected security to blanket this ancient Silk Road city of 600,000. On the eve of Ramadan last weekend, Kashgar saw at least 14 people killed and more than 40 other …
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Pickpockets' handiwork in China
Mon Aug 1, 2011 4:08 AM EDT
BEIJING--Ok, we’ve seen some outrageous stuff you can do with chopsticks. Remember the farmer who caught ping pong balls with his pair of chopsticks? But this one takes the cake. Or wallet.
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Deadly train crash in China provokes outrage
Mon Jul 25, 2011 4:38 AM EDT
By Adrienne Mong and Bo Gu BEIJING--It's the kind of disaster that provokes deep sorrow, anger, and the shaking of heads. Barely a month after China launched its much-vaunted Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail link, two so-called bullet trains collided near the eastern city of Wenz …
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Mrs. Rupert Murdoch wins hearts & minds in China
Wed Jul 20, 2011 4:59 AM EDT
BEIJING--Dragon lady. Tiger mom. Wendi Deng, aka Mrs Rupert Murdoch, showed that you can take the girl out of China, but not China out of the girl. With a leap and a spike, Deng overnight appeared to have soared into the hearts of many in mainland China who wrote on Sina Weibo ( …
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Entire fake Apple shop found in China
Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:44 AM EDT
BEIJING — Walk by the Apple shop in Beijing’s Sanlitun neighborhood any day and you begin to have an inkling of how popular this brand has become in China in just a couple of years. Roughly 40,000 visitors a day enter Apple’s shops in Beijing and Shanghai &mdash …
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China raises tiny reserve army. Really tiny.
Mon Jul 4, 2011 3:20 AM EDT
KUNMING, YUNNAN PROVINCE--Although military-to-military relations between China and the U.S. appear to be back on track, they've been frosty for almost two years after a U.S.
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is a Beijing-based producer/reporterfor NBC News. She has been covering China since 2007 for NBC.
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