Beijing

King Kaufman's Sports Daily
The Olympic torch speaks: A rare phone interview from a secret hideout in Australia. Plus: Flapless batting helmet renaissance.
The Dalai Lama's moment of truth
His Holiness struggles to defuse mounting violence between Tibet and China.
Clinton and Obama on the streets of Beijing
If China had a Democratic primary, which way would the Middle Kingdom go?
Apple and China: A one-stop solution
Locally produced, locally consumed: Apple announces plans for a Beijing store.
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
With a year to go before the Beijing Olympics, activists say China hasn't kept the promises it made to get them.
Barbarians in Beijing
A statement of moral admonition from Wu Yi to Henry Paulson
China girl
Rachel DeWoskin moved to Beijing to work in a P.R. firm. How did she get a starring role as sex kitten Jiexi in a Chinese soap opera?
Who's afraid of Falun Gong?
Journalist Danny Schechter says the peculiar spiritual movement isn't a cult, but explains why China is cracking down on it so forcefully.
Beijing's Backingham Palace
From back rubs to bowling to B-movies, this Chinese spa has it all.
Chasing rickshaws
Images and impressions of people-powered transport in 12 Asian cities. Text by Tony Wheeler. Photographs by Richard I' Anson.
Yankee, go home!
Michaela Griffin reports that being an American expatriate in Beijing was great -- until the president decided to visit.
Jazz swings into Beijing
Dan Ouellette reports from the fifth Beijing International Jazz Festival on how jazz is swinging its way into Chinese culture
Cap in hand
President Clinton goes to China, a country the U.S. needs more than ever.
Night of the living roaches
Christian McIntosh describes an unforgettable introduction to Beijing -- the night of the living roaches.
"Red Corner"
Andrew O'Hehir reviews 'Red Corner' directed Jon Avnet and starring Richard Gere and Bai Ling.
Be all that you can be
In the military, that means rape and pillage at will -- and in your own ranks.
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
Banging the drum for CIA-crack conspiracy theories, questioning the sex charges brought against black Army officers by white enlisted women and passionately defending affirmative action, confrontational Rep. Maxine Waters has risen to the top level of black political leadership.
SALON Daily Clicks: Newsreal
Hong Kong's last British governor winds down years of bad fung shui and ponders the future of democracy in the crown colony.

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