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From Print to Film: Reflections on the Transition

Writing a newspaper article can be fairly straightforward. You ask a few questions, jot down the answers in your notebook and, if want to keep your editor happy, you deliver an 800-word article before supper time. In 2005, I wrote a short article in ...

From ANDREW JACOBS, The New York Times,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: New York Times Company,  MasterCard,  Albert Maysles

Chinese Trial Reveals Vast Web of Corruption

CHONGQING, China Wen Qiang had a fondness for Louis Vuitton belts, fossilized dinosaur eggs and B-list pop stars. For a public employee in charge of the local judiciary, he also had a lot of money: nearly $3 million that investigators found buried ...

From ANDREW JACOBS, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bo Xilai,  Wen Qiang,  Louis Vuitton,  Xie Caiping,  Deng Xiaoping

An Obama Relative Living in China Tells of His Own Journey of Self-Discovery

GUANGZHOU, China Maybe it is the easy smile. Or perhaps the eyes, at once self-assured and searching. When Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo walks into the room, the similarities with President Obama, with whom he shares a father, are unmistakable if hard to ...

From ANDREW JACOBS, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Harvard University,  Emory University

Tibetan Filmmaker Tried for Subversion

CHONGQING, China A self-taught filmmaker who spent five months interviewing ordinary Tibetans about their hopes and frustrations living under Chinese rule is facing charges of state subversion after the footage was smuggled abroad and broadcast on the ...

From ANDREW JACOBS, International Herald Tribune,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Dalai Lama

Group Says China Has Executed 4 for Roles in Tibet Riots

BEIJING A Tibetan exile group in India says that the Chinese authorities have executed four people convicted for their roles in the riots that convulsed Tibet last year. According to the Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy, the four were put ...

From ANDREW JACOBS, The New York Times,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dalai Lama,  Xinhua

China’s Economy Expands 8.9 Percent

BEIJING — As much of the world continues to claw its way out of recession, China enjoyed another stretch of robust expansion in the third quarter, growing 8.9 percent from the previous year, according to government figures released on Thursday. The ...

From ANDREW JACOBS, International Herald Tribune,  22 Oct 2009

China Warns Pirates Who Commandeered Ship

BEIJING China has vowed to rescue the crew of a coal-laden cargo ship seized by pirates far off the coast of Somalia, but a negotiated settlement is more likely, maritime experts said Wednesday. European naval officials said that the 25 Chinese crew ...

From ANDREW JACOBS, International Herald Tribune,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: European Union,  International Maritime Bureau

Leader of China’s Uighur Minority Builds a Stage Across the Globe

BEIJING In what has become a familiar vocal pas de deux, Rebiya Kadeer, the exiled Uighur leader, stepped off a plane in Tokyo on Tuesday and immediately began accusing the Chinese government of secretly executing members of the Uighur minority and ...

From ANDREW JACOBS, The New York Times,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Rebiya Kadeer,  U.S. Congress,  Dalai Lama,  Tsinghua University

Beijing Goes After U.S.-Made Nylon

BEIJING — Toothbrushes and nylon socks have become the latest projectiles in the continuing trade skirmish between the China and the United States. The Chinese Ministry of Commerce issued a preliminary ruling Monday that imposed a 36 percent tariff on ...

From ANDREW JACOBS, International Herald Tribune,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Tsinghua University,  United States Department of the Treasury

British Try to Halt Execution of Briton in China

BEIJING Diplomatic officials and rights groups in Britain are waging a campaign to save the life of a British man who has been sentenced to death for drug smuggling by a Chinese court despite apparent signs of mental illness. If the sentence is ...

From ANDREW JACOBS, The New York Times,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Akmal Shaikh,  Clive Stafford Smith,  Gordon Brown,  Hu Jintao

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