China firms clamor to go kosher
Rabbi Shimon Freundlich picked up the phone in Beijing, and a Chinese factory boss launched his pitch. He wanted to join the growing ranks of Chinese exporters who have earned...
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Big questions left in N. Korea pact
Four months after North Korea defied the world by testing a nuclear device, its pledge Tuesday to close its main nuclear reactor in exchange for $400 million in aid leaves...
China ages at alarming rate
The principal's office is now the mah-jongg room. Classrooms have become bedrooms equipped with bells to summon the nurses. And the clamor of more than 1,000 elementary school students has...
As economy booms, a rising voice for environment
A thick brown cloud, unmoved by the winter wind, hung outside the window of Wang Canfa's tiny law office. Inside, stacks of binders, reference books and dog-eared notepads teetered on...
Readers respond to series, ask what they can do
"China's Great Grab," a Dec. 17-19 series by Tribune foreign correspondent Evan Osnos about the impact of China's voracious appetite for natural resources, drew reaction from around the world. In...
U.S., China vie for oil, allies on new Silk Road
The wind-raked scrub of this barren plateau reveals little hint of the revolution gurgling 9 feet beneath. China's first international oil pipeline, buried in the Kazakh steppe, is a milestone...
The coming fight for oil
ATASU, Kazakhstan -- The wind-raked scrub of this barren plateau reveals little hint of the revolution gurgling 9 feet beneath. China's first international oil pipeline, buried in the Kazakh steppe,...
Kazakhstan’s ethnic Uighurs feel pressure of petro-politics
On this city's dusty edge, China's rise echoes through the dilapidated Soviet-era apartment blocks that are home to a wary community of Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic group. The Uighurs'...
China feeds U.S. demand for wood as forests suffer
Night and day, the timber ships reach this Yangtze River port, one of the world's busiest clearinghouses for logs from every corner of the globe: Southeast Asia, the Amazon, Russia,...
The hidden cost of your hardwood floor
ZHANGJIAGANG, China -- Night and day, the timber ships reach this Yangtze River port, one of the world's busiest clearinghouses for logs from every corner of the globe: Southeast Asia,...