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China reports 10th bird flu death: A nine-year-old girl from Zhejiang province died on Monday, becoming the 10th person in China to die of bird flu.

China's rural millions left behind: The tens of millions who have moved to the cities find themselves treated like second class citizens there too. In a system akin to South Africa's apartheid, people born in rural China find it almost impossible to become full urban residents.

China moves to curb mining deaths: The governor of China's biggest coal producing province has said he plans to slow expansion in the industry in a bid to curb the number of mining deaths.

Young Chinese struggling for jobs: A decade ago, a university education meant a promising future as only a handful of elite students had the chance to enter college, and every graduate was guaranteed a life-long job in government organizations or state firms. But these promises ended years ago when the government decided to let students find jobs themselves.

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We are in the process of adopting our first child from China. Our application was officially "logged-in" in China on October 10, 2005. Since that time, however, there has been a significant slowdown between the time an application is "logged-in" in China and the time a family is actually referred a baby. During this extended waiting period, we have decided to post this very basic Web site as a venue for selling some of our photography to help raise the additional money we will need to complete the adoption process.

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Baby Adoption Case Draws Scrutiny in China: Liang Guihong is a goodhearted 56-year-old woman who finds homes for abandoned infants. Or she's a leader of a gang that sold abducted babies, some of whom were adopted abroad.

The Geopolitics of Sexual Frustration: The lost boys of Prof. Albert Macovski are upon us. Twenty years ago, the ultrasound scanning machine came into widespread use in Asia. The invention of Macovski, a Stanford University researcher, the device quickly gave pregnant women a cheap and readily available means to determine the sex of their unborn children. The results, by the million, are now coming to maturity in Bangladesh, China, India, and Taiwan. By choosing to give birth to males--and to abort females--millions of Asian parents have propelled the region into an extraordinary experiment in the social effects of gender imbalance.

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Long Corridor at Summer Palace Gets Face-lift: A 720-meter long corridor at gorgeous Summer Palace in the western suburbs of the national capital Beijing is undergoing an overhaul to protect the dainty paintings on its ceilings and beams against the rain.

China confirms new bird flu death: A man who died last week in the south Chinese province of Guangdong has been confirmed by the health ministry as the country's ninth victim of bird flu. [Related MSNBC Article]

China teaching how to spit, sit for 2008: The government is teaching citizens "the right way to spit." A college is showing students the right way to sit. Two years ahead of hosting the Olympic Games, people across Beijing are on an all-out drive to mind their manners.

Meg Ryan

'I was destined to adopt a baby': Meg Ryan knew she was destined to become the mother of her adoptive daughter Daisy after an epiphany in India 10 years ago.

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Inside The Forbidden City


(Courtesy of Rob Millenaar)

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Adoption of Chinese children becomes more popular: In an informational session last week at the Mystic-Noank Library, China Adoption With Love Inc., a non-profit adoption agency that has placed more than 1,500 children since its start 10 years ago, gave prospective parents a look at the facets of child adoption in China.

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Guiyang streetlife
Still life - but not quiet.

(Courtesy of Rob Millenaar)

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Unlocking the 'Forbidden Garden': The Qianlong Garden in the northeastern section of the Forbidden City will receive a US$12 million face-lift by the Palace Museum, administrative organ of the Forbidden City, and the New York-based World Monuments Fund.

The high price of illness in China: Today the old system providing near-universal access to basic healthcare has been dismantled, as the government tries to spread the cost of providing healthcare to more than one billion people.