Topic: Sichuan Province
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'Heads in Beds': 6 crazy stories about working at a hotel
In "Heads in Beds," former hotel worker Jacob Tomsky reveals what really happens behind the scenes and offers suggestions as to how to ensure good service the next time you are a guest in a hotel.
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In Pictures: Raising bears in China
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In Pictures: Weiwei: Artist and provocateur
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Five famous jailed dissidents in China: Ai Weiwei to Liu Xiaobo
Chinese authorities have cracked down on dissent in hopes of preventing a popular uprising in China like those that have erupted in the Middle East. Sweeping arrests of prominent dissidents have been part of the campaign and have earned the Chinese government widespread internal and international criticism. Who are some of these activists being put behind bars?
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Ai Weiwei: Why does he make Chinese authorities nervous?
The famous Chinese artist and political dissident Ai Weiwei hasn’t been heard from since his arrest Sunday by Chinese authorities.
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The Monitor's View: For journalists and Internet, 2013 must not repeat 2012
Record assaults on journalists in 2012 and official moves to censor the Internet show how much authoritarian regimes fear the truth. Perhaps in 2013, truth-tellers will start to win.
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Spike in Tibetan self-immolations draws international attention to China
Today, yet another Tibetan died after he set himself on fire in protest. And neither the Chinese authorities nor exiled Tibetan leaders seem able, or willing, to halt the recent spike in such incidents.
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'Heads in Beds': 6 crazy stories about working at a hotel
In "Heads in Beds," former hotel worker Jacob Tomsky reveals what really happens behind the scenes and offers suggestions as to how to ensure good service the next time you are a guest in a hotel.
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Where are China's women leaders?
Less than a quarter of the delegates to the 18th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, there are women. As for the select group of seven or nine top officials who in effect govern China? Not one.
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Modern Parenthood
Halloween in Beijing: Pumpkins, pirates, and ... a man in a dark suitYes, Virginia, there is Halloween in Beijing. No one dares to toss toilet paper over the gingko trees or egg the local Sichuan restaurant, but a group of American expatriates held a party and trick or treat – and most of the guests were Chinese, including a man in a dark suit.
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Chinese rescue workers search for survivors in wake of twin quakes
Rescue efforts are underway in southwestern China after two earthquakes destroyed about 6,650 homes Friday. At least 80 people were killed.
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China earthquakes damage 20,000 homes, leave 50 dead (+video)
China earthquakes: Southwestern China was hit with a series of shallow, damaging earthquakes Friday. The quakes damaged an estimated 20,000 homes and buildings in rural China.
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In Tibet, defiant self-immolations spread beyond monks, nuns
Yesterday, a Tibetan mother died after her self-immolation in protest of the Dalai Lama's exile and the lack of freedom in Tibet. The number of self-immolators has risen to 45 in the past 1-1/2 years.
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry: movie review
'Never Sorry' is a new-style profile in 21st-century courage.
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Beijing hit by heaviest rain in six decades (+video)
Flooding in usually dry Beijing has killed at least 10 people.
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The Monitor's View: Out of disasters in Russia and China, a bloom of compassion
Russian volunteers rushed to the city of Krymsk after its July 7 flood, just as Chinese gave generously after a 2008 earthquake. Heartfelt, organized charity isn't easy for authoritarian regimes to tolerate.
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China Heavyweight: movie review
The idealism and heartbreak are universal in this new variant of a timeless theme.
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Dalai Lama's envoys to China resign in frustration
Two high-profile resignations and an increasing number of self-immolations within the Tibetan community highlight a desperate effort to attract attention to the Chinese government's crackdown in Tibet.
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As Japan marks tsunami anniversary, a fresh spirit of volunteerism
One year after Japan's earthquake and subsequent tsunami disaster, some 1 million people have taken the time to volunteer in the disaster zone, bolstering a trend that began in earnest with the 1995 Kobe earthquake.
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Global News Blog
In China, reporting on Tibetan and Uighur unrest is nearly impossibleWestern China - home to a Muslim Uighur minority and ethnic Tibetans - has been rocked by violence in recent months. Chinese authorities are keeping reporters out of the area.
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Rare visit to remote region highlights China's clampdown on Tibet
Conversations with ethnic Tibetans suggest that China's authoritarian policies designed to tamp down disorder are causing unrest and self immolations.
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Difference Maker
Deng Fei goes beyond journalism to right wrongs in ChinaOnce a top investigative reporter in China, Deng Fei now writes a popular microblog that moves readers to action.
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As Tibetan New Year approaches, China tightens grip
A senior Chinese official has ordered tighter security in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and on main roads following deadly protests in Tibetan-inhabited Sichuan province.
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Chinese police fire into crowd of Tibetan protesters, say witnesses
But Chinese authorities said that overseas advocacy groups were twisting the truth about what happened with Tibetan protesters Monday in order to undermine the government.
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The Monitor's View: Self-immolation as protest tactic rises in Tibet, Middle East
Political suicides by fire rise among many Tibetans and Arabs as their situations grow desperate. But such a tactic often fails to ignite protest, and itself raises questions.
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Giant pandas, on loan from China, now living in Scotland
A pair of giant pandas was loaned to a Scottish zoo by the Chinese government. The pandas arrived in Edinburgh on Sunday.
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China's crackdown grows as Tibetan self-immolations increase
The string of 10 recent Tibetan self-immolations – six monks, three former monks, and a nun – is unprecedented in modern Tibetan history.
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The Monitor's View: China and 'uncommon' acts of goodness
A video of strangers ignoring an injured toddler stirs China to debate its level of empathy toward strangers. The solution? More models of altruism.
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In China, toddler left for dead sparks heated debate about society's moral health
The case of a toddler run over twice and left in the road to die has sparked a morality debate in China about the legal and ethical shortcomings in a China focused on economic progress.
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The Monitor's View: Love in China
A new book by dissident writer Liao Yiwu chronicles the rise of Christianity in China, where even the Communist Party wants to adopt Christian values.
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