Chinese Golf Heads Into the Rough as Xi Takes a Swing
on December 23, 2014
Old distaste for a bourgeois game puts Its future on hold in China
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on December 23, 2014
A protester holds a sunflower as over two hundred thousand people rally on March 30, 2014 in Taipei. Taiwanese protesters opposed to the contentious Trade in Services Agreement with the mainland called for a huge weekend rally filling Ketagalan Boulevard leading from the Presidential Office to the Legislative Yuan to increase pressure on President Ma Ying-jeou.
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on December 23, 2014
Li Na of China serves in her third round match against Lucie Safarova, of the Czech Republic, during the 2014 Australian Open at Melbourne Park. Li went on to win the tournament and in September announced her retirement.
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- Why China’s Li Na Won’t Thank Her Homeland, by Liz Carter from Tea Leaf Nation, January 28, 2014
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on December 23, 2014
Rescuers transfer a woman injured when a 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck her village in Qiaojia County, Yunnan province on August 5, 2014. At least 398 people were killed.
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on December 23, 2014
A Chinese laborer loads a machine with plastic as it is chopped into small pieces before being recycled in Dongxiaokou village on the outskirts of Beijing. The village is made up mostly of families of poor migrant workers who have come from surrounding provinces and are some of the tens of thousands of scrap peddlers surviving on recycling goods collected in China’s capital. China is the world’s biggest generator of solid waste and as the country’s population and economy continue to grow the peddlers are integral to the waste and recycling management system in major cities.
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on December 23, 2014
Laborers eat breakfast at a Beijing market. China faces a challenge to ensure its food supply keeps pace with its population as more farmers leave the agricultural workforce for jobs in the cities. Diets and lifestyles have also been altered by the rising affluence of China’s growing middle class and its increasing demand for meat.
China’s Dark Shadow Looms Over Oil’s Future
on December 23, 2014
At the heart of global oil demand in China, there remains darkness.
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on December 23, 2014
People march in Causeway Bay during the Gay Pride parade in Hong Kong on November 8, 2014. The atmosphere was jovial as nearly two thousand people, some wrapped in rainbow-colored flags and some dressed in drag, took to the streets.
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on December 23, 2014
Runners in masks file past a soldier during the Beijing Marathon.
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A worker passes by the largest cemetery of the Red Army martyrs in China, in Bazhong, Sichuan province.
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Collecting Insanity, by Joshua Frank, September 18, 2014
