http://www.sinoscribe.com Journalist Kathleen E. McLaughlin Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:48:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Kathleen E. McLaughlin Nearly a year after violent riots engulfed Urumqi, the capital city of China's restive Xinjiang region, major questions about China's deadliest ethnic unrest in decades remain unanswered. Key facts remain unknown or in dispute. First, how many Uighurs were killed at a southern China toy factory in late June, ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/what-really-happened-in-urumqi-foreign-policy/ By Kathleen E. McLaughlin - GlobalPost Published: March 17, 2010 Editor’s note: This story is part of our series Silicon Sweatshops, an ongoing GlobalPost investigation into the supply chains that make some of your favorite electronic gadgets. In this installment, GlobalPost examined the fallout after a factory that supplies Apple and ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/toxic-touchscreen-production-in-china/ By Kathleen E. McLaughlin - GlobalPost Published: March 17, 2010 Editor’s note: This story is part of our series Silicon Sweatshops, an ongoing GlobalPost investigation into the supply chains that make some of your favorite electronic gadgets. In this installment, GlobalPost examined the fallout after a factory that supplies Apple and Nokia ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/whats-a-chinese-worker-worth/ By Kathleen E. McLaughlin - GlobalPost Published: March 17, 2010 SUZHOU, China — The only certainty about factory worker Li Liang’s death is that nobody will ever know for sure what killed him. What is certain is that Li's death unleashed a wave of fear, anger and protest over chemical exposure tied ... http://www.sinoscribe.com/strange-death-at-a-touchscreen-factory/ 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/