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- Beijing's pork sellers suffer amid swine flu confusion [AFP] "Pork seller Yuan Zhufeng fears for her livelihood after a sudden drop in customers at one of Beijing's big markets, with people unsure over whether they can contract swine flu from eating meat. "People have decided not to buy pork because of this swine flu," said the 47-year-old butcher at Dongjiao Market, located in the heart of Beijing where residents still remember the panic caused by the SARS epidemic in 2003."
- Classic tale: Peddler joins PhD program [People's Daily Online] "Despite failing his college entrance exam years ago, the 38-year-old street peddler and part-time bicycle taxi driver from Jinzhou, Liaoning province, followed his love and continued to study classic Chinese literature on his own. He learned so much about the field he attracted the attention of a prominent scholar, who even made changes to his own work based on Cai's suggestions."
- Obama the first Asian-American president? [AFP] "Barack Obama made history as the first African-American president but in his first 100 days he has also shown himself to be America's most Asian leader yet, community members say. Obama appointed a record three Asian-Americans cabinet members and quickly focused his attention across the Pacific. He invited Japan's prime minister as his first guest and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to Asia on her maiden trip. At home, Asian-American leaders have welcomed signs Obama will take political risks to revamp the immigration system, whose rigid rules and creaky pace are blamed by many in the community for tearing apart families."
- Taiwan president: China okays island WHO role [Associated Press] "Taiwan's president says that China has offered to lift its objections to the island's participation in the key decision-making body of the World Health Organization. Taiwan has long sought to participate in the world health body in its campaign for international recognition and President Ma Ying-jeou's announcement — if confirmed by China — would represent a major victory for Taipei."
- Stem cell appeal reaches target [BBC] "The family of a blind toddler are set to fly to China so he can receive stem cell therapy in the hope he can get some sight. Joshua Clark, 22 months, from Caernarfon, Gwynedd, suffers from a brain disorder known as Septo Optic Dysplasia. Doctors in this country had said there was no treatment, but an appeal to raise £40,000 to get him to China has hit its target."
- A Gift Bowl Serves Victories to a Village [NY Times] "Where dragon boat racing is concerned, a legend that began in 1961 with a visit to the area by Zhou Enlai, then the prime minister of China, has cloaked Mannao with an aura of invincibility. That year, as Mr. Zhou watched, Mannao won the annual race. Mr. Zhou, who is revered by Chinese as the humane foil to Mao Zedong, gave several Dai villages a silver bowl, locals say, but the one he handed Mannao was a little bigger, a little finer. The story of the bowl has circulated among the Dai, an ethnic group that numbers 1.16 million in China and is most common in this region called Xishuangbanna, in southern Yunnan Province along the border with Laos."
- Leading Chinese dissident claims freedom of speech worse than before Olympics [Telegraph] "He Weifang, a celebrated law professor and lead signatory to last year's Charter 08 petition calling for democratic reforms in China, said the ruling Communist Party was currently engaged in a fresh wave of repressive internet and media censorship. Even allowing for the Communist party's highly conservative approach to any kind of reform - embodied in Deng Xiaoping's famous phrase "Crossing the river by feeling for stones" - he said China was moving backwards on basic freedoms. "
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