http://www.sinoscribe.com Journalist Kathleen E. McLaughlin Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:35:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en GEJIU, China — Xin Deming's family has been decimated by AIDS and he is adamant the disease not ruin the life of his 10-year-old niece. Yet despite his best efforts, she is at the mercy of erratic treatment, massive social stigma and overwhelming uncertainty about the future. In Xin’s family, three of ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/chinese-children-living-with-aids/ Editor's note: While the health care reform battle rages in Washington, D.C., China has been quietly revamping its own massive health care system — with decidely mixed results. In this three-part special report, Kathleen E. McLaughlin and photographer Sharron Lovell tracked the results on both urban and rural residents. BEIJING — ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/chinas-health-care-predicament/ I recently recorded a podcast with the Asia Society, where there were some interesting questions about how China is handling ethnic relations in the aftermath of the Xinjiang riots. Namely: What is China doing to educate the larger population about Uighurs and other ethnicities? You can listen to or download ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/asia-society-podcast-on-ethnic-tensions-in-china/ I'm finally updating this sadly neglected site, and having an interesting look back at what I've worked on over the past year. More to come... http://www.sinoscribe.com/website-update/ Shaoguan, China – When the local government in Xinjiang province dispatched more than 800 Uighur workers to a toy factory here in May, they couldn’t have predicted their fate would blow up into a national crisis. Today, police say two of the Uighur workers were killed and scores more injured ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/fear-grips-uighurs/ SHAOGUAN, China — At the heart of a deadly June toy factory clash that sparked mass protests and killings 2,000 miles away in China’s far west lies a government policy that sends thousands of young Muslim Uighurs to fill labor gaps in the southeast. Experts say despite yawning cultural differences and communication ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/life-on-planet-uighur/ HUIZHOU, China — Blind luck sent hundreds of Muslim Uighurs to a factory here last year to make Nike shoes, instead of five hours north, where their friends and neighbors from the same rural patch of China’s far northwest went to make toys. Though they aren’t there, the Shaoguan toy factory ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/at-a-nike-factory/ SHAOGUAN, China — Three weeks after simmering racial tension escalated to mayhem and a double murder at a toy factory here, about 750 Uighur workers remain largely out of sight, behind locked gates and guarded doors — perhaps because they are at the center of a storm that has brought ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/uighur-workers-held-behind-locked-gates/ BEIJING — Ai Weiwei believes in the power of the internet. That’s precisely why on July 1, he wants China to stop using it. A general internet strike — no work, no games, no email or anything else online — for 24 hours on the date the government plans to require ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/ai-weiweis-internet-game/ BEIJING — It’s become on-board theater for those arriving in China: A team of health workers, dressed head-to-toe in white space suits, boards each international flight to scan every passenger for fever and other flu symptoms before they are allowed to set foot in country. The team moves from seat to ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/chinas-response-to-h1n1/