Year of Birth Unknown

29 May 2012

Nanmen is typical of an urban neighbourhood in modern China.

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Despite vow never to go underground, miner faces return to pit as job options run out

14 Jun 2010

Zhang Jianyong , one of the 108 miners who rushed to the surface before the Wangjialing Coal Mine flooded in March, says his children have begged him not to work underground again.

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Brick factory slaves 'treated like the dead'

15 Jun 2007

Father tells how kiln's managers refused medical help for his severely burned son

Zhang Yinlei and five other workers lured into slavery at a brick factory in Shanxi were almost...

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Village voices

6 Sep 2005

WEARING A SIMPLE black top and demure string of pearls, Zhang Jingjing doesn't look like the fearless public- service lawyer that she is.

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Legendary warrior finally defeated as hero's temple gives way to dam

9 Dec 2002

The warrior Zhang Fei is said to have defeated rebels and armies with a 5.5 metre steel spear shaped like a serpent's head.

But the hot-blooded hero of ancient China's Three Kingdoms...

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Father of hoaxer 'not surprised'

18 May 2002

The elderly father of a convicted fraudster arrested for claiming he had found missing autistic boy Yu Man-hon said he was 'not surprised' at his son's actions.

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Opinion

China keeping its edge despite grim talk

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Howard Winn

If StanChart doesn't want us, why keep inviting us?

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Suspect secrets of success

THICK FACE, BLACK HEART Chu Chin-ning, Nicholas Brearley Publishing, $136 THE news leaked out in the 1980s that there really was a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow - and the people of Asia-...

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Just the business

JAMES Belasco offers advice on how to adapt your company to take advantage of a changing business climate in Teaching the Elephant to Dance (Century, $159).

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