Articles Written by:    ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA     

« Previous  |  Next »

China Seals Off Town After Second Plague Death

The Qinghai Province health bureau said a 32-year-old herdsman and his 37-year-old neighbor in Ziketan, a Tibetan town of 10,000, have died. A doctor at a nearby hospital where patients are being treated said a third victim, who is 64-years-old, died ...

From ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA, The Washington Post,  3 Aug 2009
Related Topics: World Health Organization

Investors In China Fuel Fast Expansion

HONG KONG, July 28 -- China's first initial public offering in nearly a year rose so high, so fast on Monday that regulators were forced to halt trading twice. The Hong Kong stock exchange's Hang Seng Index this week soared to double its low point last ...

From ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA, The Washington Post,  29 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Hang Seng Index

China's Economy Expanding Fast

HONG KONG, July 28 -- China's first initial public offering in nearly a year rose so high, so fast on Monday that regulators were forced to halt trading twice. The Hong Kong stock exchange's Hang Seng Index this week soared to double its low point last ...

From ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA, The Washington Post,  28 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Hang Seng Index

China, Uighur Groups Present Conflicting Accounts of Unrest

According to the version of events offered by China's Foreign Ministry and state media, the ethnic unrest that erupted in Urumqi on July 5 was a terrorist attack by Uighur separatists. Women in black Islamic robes stood at street corners giving orders, ...

From ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA, The Washington Post,  24 Jul 2009

Flare-Ups of Ethnic Unrest Shake China's Self-Image

After being hit in the head multiple times by police, Xu's brain is hemorrhaging, leaving him paralyzed on the right side. He can barely sit up. Local government officials say Xu's injuries and that of other farmers were regrettable but unavoidable. ...

From ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA, The Washington Post,  19 Jul 2009

China Unrest Can Be Traced to Program That Sends Uighurs Across Country to Work

Some, lured by the eye-popping salaries and benefits, eagerly signed up. But others, like Safyden's 21-year-old sister, were wary. She was uneasy, relatives said, about being so far from her family and living in a Han Chinese-dominated environment so ...

From ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA, The Washington Post,  14 Jul 2009

Death Toll Debated In China's Rioting

URUMQI, China -- The Yu siblings could hardly bear to look at the police snapshots of the dead -- the images so full of anger and cruelty. So they took turns sifting through them in search of their brother, who had been missing since ethnically charged ...

From ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA, The Washington Post,  11 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Congress

China’s president vows punishment in ethnic clashes

URUMQI, China - President Hu Jintao of China and other top leaders of the Communist Party vowed yesterday to punish severely those responsible for the bloody, ethnically charged clashes this week in the far western region of Xinjiang. Hu, in his first ...

From ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA, Boston Globe,  10 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Hu Jintao

China's Hu Says Uighur Riots Will Bring Severe Punishment

More than 150 people have been killed in rioting in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, with the government blaming exiled separatists for the traditionally Muslim area's worst case of unrest in years. Comments that include profanity or personal ...

From ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA, The Washington Post,  9 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Hu Jintao,  U N Security Council

China's Hu: Maintaining Stability Paramount

Hu, in his first public comments about the crisis, said local authorities should "isolate and deal a blow to the small group" of those guilty of killing 156 people and injuring more than 1,000 in attacks that pitted the country's dominant Han Chinese ...

From ARIANA EUNJUNG CHA, The Washington Post,  9 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U N Security Council

« Previous  |  Next »

Who is This?

Help us add to our database, by linking this writer their entry in Wikipedia or Source Watch, or by suggesting that we remove it from our index.

Suggest an Entry

Enter a url from sourcewatch.org or wikipedia.org:


recommend removal

close