CULTURE
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A Chinese blogger ponders the Grand Slam win of compatriot Li Na and wonders how much the tennis champion owes to China's national sporting policy.
RACHEL HUANG
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A visitor arrives on Beijing's infamous square and returns with photos and more than a few thoughts on that fateful date.
DEWEY HAMMOND
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For a long time, the Duan Wu festival was one of few occasions in the year that poor Chinese allowed themselves the luxury of meat.
SIMONE ERASMUS-LAM
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Some discovered Jesus, and others wealth and success on Wall Street. A handful is on Twitter where one of them tells of how he was entrapped by his wife, a Chinese undercover spy. Here are the 21 most wanted leaders of the Tiananmen uprising, 22 years later.
DAN-CHYI CHUA
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A man crippled by the tank that rolled over his legs. A 15-year-old who demands the truth. Here’s a collection of Chinese voices on the 1989 government crackdown on pro-democracy student protestors, known to them simply as June 4.
The asia! team
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Caregiver is blamed, but story exposes more serious issues in China’s care system for the old.
王传涛 Wang Chuantao
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Papa, how do you spell “beautiful”, she asked. You spell it the way it's said, he told her. And that was how they made this film.
LA CHINITA
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When Mikhail Kudryashov goes to court this week, all eyes will be on him to see if there will be justice for a man most think was set up.
CHRIS RICKLETON
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A hard look at a once-idyllic isle that tourism has transformed – for the worse.
NICOLE LOW
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Life on Earth might end in 200 years, but it won’t be because of the Apocalypse, says China’s most high-profile “popular science” writer Fang Zhouzi.
The asia! team
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The South Korean filmmaker’s auteur project topped the Un Certain Regard category, though not all critics were impressed.
BERNICE TANG
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The bucolic village of Patangarh in Central India is unremarkable at first glance. But there, in almost every family, lives an artist highly skilled in a traditional style of tribal art threatened by modernisation.
DAWN TAN
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The ultimate goal of having sons still exists in Hmong-American communities.
MAIBAO (MAIV NPAUJ)
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Sex is an intimate way of expressing love between Mummy and Daddy, Hong Kong tells its 3- to 6-year-olds.
JING GAO (Translation)
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After a two-hour flight, the writer wakes up to the Taiwanese capital and its many quirks.
JOSE DALISAY, JR.
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