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Mark MacKinnon (born 1974) is a Canadian journalist, currently the Middle East bureau chief for Canada's national newspaper, The Globe and Mail. He is a two-time winner of the National Newspaper Award, Canada's top reporting prize.

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Cambodia tunes in for Duch trial

A s news anchors come, Ung Chan Sophea and Neth Pheaktra are among the dourest on television anywhere. They go on air every Monday for 25 minutes and speak to millions of Cambodians with one unbreakable rule between them: Never smile, no matter what. ...

From MARK MACKINNON, Globe and Mail,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Khmer Rouge,  George Soros,  Open Society Institute,  Pol Pot

Mandarin pushing out Cantonese

A t first, Rao Yuansheng didn't even realize he was doing it. He was sitting in the bustling newsroom of Guangzhou Television, worrying aloud about the declining use of Cantonese here in the land of its birth, and he was speaking in Mandarin. “I guess I' ...

From MARK MACKINNON, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: The New Republic

After one child, a Chinese city tries one dog

F or decades, China's citizens have lived with the controversial one-child regime imposed on them by their government. Now, pet lovers in this southern factory city are frothing over the latest official intrusion into their lives: a one-dog policy. The ...

From MARK MACKINNON, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mao Zedong,  Mercury,  Xinhua,  Li Changjiang

A group of two on China's terms

T wenty years after tanks crushed a student uprising on Tiananmen Square – marking the lowest point in recent U.S.-China relations – the President of the United States found himself standing in a building on the same plaza, acknowledging Beijing as a ...

From MARK MACKINNON, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hu Jintao,  Dalai Lama,  Bill Clinton,  University of California, Los Angeles

China plays down Obama's visit

C hinese President Hu Jintao, the news anchor announced, returned to Beijing Monday after attending the weekend APEC summit in Singapore. Switching to a deeper, sadder voice, he told of how Mr. Hu and other Chinese leaders attended the funeral of a ...

From MARK MACKINNON, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Xinhua,  Hu Jintao,  Xi Jinping,  Jia Qinglin

China restricts Obama's Q&A

I t almost didn't happen, but U.S. President Barack Obama will get a chance to showcase his famous oratory skills – live, but not quite uncensored – when he fields questions from Chinese university students in Shanghai Monday. Anxious Chinese ...

From MARK MACKINNON, Globe and Mail,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  US State Department,  Xinhua,  Twitter Inc,  White House

Rising clout gives China new muscle at ‘G2' talks with U.S.

I t was a tactic that might have worked a few years ago, back when the United States was the world's only superpower and China just another country seeking its favour. Thirty brave Chinese citizens gathered in Beijing's snow-covered Temple of the Sun ...

From MARK MACKINNON, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Dalai Lama,  Bill Clinton,  Wang Dan,  Wei Jingsheng

China equates Tibetan traditions with U.S. slavery

W as Mao Zedong the Abraham Lincoln of China? In an attempt to convince U.S. President Barack Obama of its claim to Tibet, the Chinese government has likened the 1959 Communist takeover of the area to the American Civil War, inferring that Mao freed ...

From MARK MACKINNON, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Abraham Lincoln,  Dalai Lama,  Mao Zedong,  White House

Canadian missing in Hong Kong for a full year

I n the closed-circuit video, Ani Ashekian looks unhurried as she withdraws money from a bank machine on Hong Kong Island shortly after midnight. There's a man withdrawing money at the machine beside her, but otherwise she's alone. She returns a few ...

From MARK MACKINNON, Globe and Mail,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Michael Connelly,  New York Times Company

Learning on a jet plane: Taiwanese find a vehicle for global success

M andy Chun leaned forward in seat 5A of her flight from Taipei to Vancouver and considered her options. "I like chicken please," she said, slowly pronouncing each word as she peered over her oval glasses at the flight attendant. The other passengers ...

From MARK MACKINNON, Globe and Mail,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Wen Jiabao

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