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Kunming Bus Bombs: Smoke and Mirrors

12:08 AM, July 22, 2008 | Comments (0)
News of the bombing of two buses in the Chinese city of Kunming made its way swiftly round the world on Monday. Two people died and fourteen were injured as two separate buses exploded within an hour of each other in the morning rush hour, just a few...

Beijing Cleans Up its Bar Scene Ahead of the Games

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  • Games and Leadership Politics

    Melinda Liu | Apr 11, 2008 12:21 PM
    As the title of the Olympic torch relay, “the Journey of Harmony” now somewhat ironically reminds us, one of China’s prime aims for the Olympic Games was to show the world an image of a modern, harmonious communist society.  President Hu Jintao has adopted as his mantra the development of a "harmonious society". And o ver the past few years, the authorities have put a new emphasis on social welfare, after years of breakneck growth left many struggling to keep up with an increasingly expensive society.   Perhaps the highest profile victim of this change of emphasis is Chen Liangyu, Shanghai’s former Communist Party boss, who, has just been sentenced to 18 years on corruption charges. Duncan Hewitt writes from Shanghai:
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