 | Chinese recruited for war had secret passage through Canada
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 | Snorkeling in Boracay
Crocodile Island is one of the Philippines’ finest snorkeling spots, featuring a wide variety of marine life and depths that are suitable to explorers of all levels of experience. Located about 200 miles south of Manila, it’s a 20-minute boat ride from the island of Boracay, a fast-growing tourist destination known for its White Beach. |
 | Hiking China For first-time visitors to China, Beijing and Shanghai are the default destinations. But for tourists who like to mix city travel with outdoor experiences, two natural landmarks in China stand out: Yellow Mountain and Tiger Leaping Gorge. Both are among the country's most popular and significant attractions, akin to the Grand Canyon in the U.S. Yellow Mountain – Huangshan has been an icon in Chinese culture for centuries. Tiger Leaping Gorge, about 240 miles from the Tibetan border, is one of the deepest gorges in the world. READ MORE. (Associated Press, Jan. 12, 2011) |
 | Landlubbers Welcome HONG KONG —Looking up at Hong Kong's skyline of soaring office towers and mammoth apartment complexes, it's hard to imagine that a short ferry ride could whisk you away from this bustling metropolis to another world — a world where there are no high rises, no cars and no crowds. READ MORE. (Associated Press, Jan. 11, 2011) |
 | China struggles to rebuild mental health programs HONG KONG — The anomaly is striking. At least a dozen workers leapt to their death in the same factory compound in southern China in 2010, while nearly 30 people died and 80 were injured in a spate of school stabbings. Yet, contrary to instinct, there is little evidence to confirm that there has been a rapid rise in the rate of mental illnesses in China, and strong evidence of a dramatic drop in suicide rates over the past two decades. READ MORE. (CMAJ, Jan, 5 2011) |
 | China searches for best medicine for ailing scientific journals HONG KONG — China’s scientific journals are, simply put, plagued by mediocrity. The country has over 5000 mostly Chinese-language science and technology journals, but many of the articles they publish are unread and rarely cited. READ MORE. (CMAJ, Nov, 19 2010) |
 | Canadians can’t disguise admiration and concern over masked traveller’s stunt HONG KONG — Canadians flying out of the same Hong Kong airport where a man in disguise boarded a plane for Vancouver expressed everything from admiration to concern Saturday over his Mission Impossible-esque stunt. READ MORE. (National Post, Nov. 6, 2010) |
 | China's "left behind" children often suffer health consequences QINGTIAN COUNTY, ZHEJIANG PROVINCE — Zhang Sheng Yi was just a few months old when he was sent from his home, outside of Venice, Italy to Qingtian, a mountainous county in China’s southeastern province of Zhejiang. His father was a cook in a sushi restaurant and his mother a seamstress in a clothing factory. Struggling immigrants, overwhelmed and underpaid, they shipped their only son to China to be cared for by his paternal grandmother. Across China, millions of children have been left in the care of relatives in the countryside as their parents migrate to cities, or even abroad, to find work. READ MORE. (CMAJ, September 2010) |
 | Affluence Prompts Women to Light Up in China
"There’s not one woman in there," she says. "If I went in there, the men might not be too happy." Instead, she treks outside to light up, and if she looks left or right, will typically see other women doing the same. READ MORE. |
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 | Lady Liberty Crown Re-opens on July Fourth NEW YORK — The first visitors allowed into the Statue of Liberty's crown in nearly eight years made the arduous climb Saturday on an Independence Day journey laden with symbolism of freedom, national pride — and for one couple, romance. (Associated Press, July 4, 2009) |
 | Determined to Serve - The Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA, CANADA — At the outbreak of war, thousands of Canada's minority communities lined up to enlist in the armed forces. Many were turned away because of the colour of their skin. This two-page spread in the Ottawa Citizen tells the remarkable stories of five minority veterans who fought discrimination. (Ottawa Citizen, Oct. 2006) |
 | Making the Force Fit The City TORONTO — The city's police service is determined to diversify its officers. It's paying off, but some things still get lost in translation. I go on a ride-a-long with Constable Chen Shen, a former computer programmer from Beijing who now patrols one of Toronto's most dangerous neighborhoods. (The Globe and Mail, Aug. 2006) |
 | From the Far East to Farmingdale LONG ISLAND — Mu Zijian was preparing for his Chinese culture class at Sichuan University in western China when his desk began to shake, the floor beneath his feet rumbled, and the walls of his fifth-floor dormitory room swayed from side to side. The story of how 150 students, whose lives were devastated by the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, came to America. (The Long Island Press, September 2008) |
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JT says:
Jul 7, 2011
Wow. I am simply amazed and inspired by all of your accomplishments. You are such a role model to aspiring journalists and the Asian American community.
Paul says:
Nov 5, 2011
Wow. I am simply amazed and inspired by all of your accomplishments. You are such a role model to aspiring journalists and the Asian American community.
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