China
Social Issues
2012 - 2011
Chinese Government Institutionalizes People Against Their Will: Chinese Human-Rights Defenders
Every year, thousands of healthy Chinese are forcibly locked up and ‘treated’ in mental institutions, according to a new report by the Chinese Human Rights Defenders.
Basic but Bilingual Tibetan children are discovering that learning Putonghua doesn't mean they have to abandon their mother tongue
In the Shadows
Dangerous Elements
2010 - 2009
Killer At Large Banned in many countries, asbestos is being produced and used in the mainland in greater amounts than ever before. But, as Paul Mooney, Jim Morris and Te-Ping Chen discover, few people across the border are aware of the deadly consequences.
Mainland faces explosive rise in asbestos-related lung disease
Nomadic priest keeps the faith alive
The Lost Boys
A People Ignored
2006 - 2005
Faith in the Countryside
Attack on Church Nuns in China beaten in property dispute
Keeping the Faith Despite centuries of secrecy, China's last Orthodox Christians are defiantly clinging to their beliefs in the hope of Beijing granting greater freedoms
Degrees of Deceit Thousands of Chinese students are cheating their way through school
2004
Power of Prayer "Underground" and state-approved Catholic churches are gradually merging in a trend that worries Beijing
Escaped Converts Aided by clandestine Christian networks, North Koreans are finding God and reaching freedom
Line between the Underground and Official Church Blurs in China; after Years of Hostility, Reconciliation is in the Air
North Korean Refugees Four teenagers and the long road to freedom
The New Untouchables An army of street beggars has invaded mainland cities after a change in the law; officially hailed as a step forward, the new regulations have made it difficult for the authorities to move them
About 7, and working the district
Language Lessons Minority languages are in danger of disappearing
2003
Half the Sky A former Hollywood screenwriter's adopted Chinese daughter inspired her to establish a foundation to help other orphaned children on the mainland
Women Need Not Apply Unskilled, untrained and often in the bottom-rung jobs, the rust-belt women have been hit hardest by the sudden shift to a market economy
Easy Streets With the gap between rich and poor widening, there's no shortage of young women willing to trade poverty for the comforts that come with the being a second wife or even a prostitute
The Kids Are Not Alright Across China, new youth gangs are fueling an alarming rise in the number and viciousness of crimes committed by juveniles
Second Wives' Club Concubines are gaining a renewed notoriety in China among men looking to mark their fortune--and young women hoping to improve theirs
Braving the Seas and More Smuggling Chinese into the U.S. means big business
1994
Underground Church Catholic movement thrives as opposition's battle begins