Asia

Turning 18 in a traditionally conservative Islamic country is not the rite of passage many teenagers exposed to Western lifestyles on television and the Internet anticipate.

The 2008 Beijing Olympics was an historic extravaganza that entertained the largest television audience in the history of the event. But will the Olympics begin to foster dangerous nationalism Voices’ China reporter shares his view.

As China gets ready to host the 2008 Summer Olympics millions of Chinese are sent home from work without pay, their factories closed.

By Jack Huang, China – April 2008
27 year old Jin Jing is very famous in China today. She was recently named “the most beautiful Chinese girl in April” in an online election because of her role as the torchbearer for the Paris leg of the Olympic torch’s world journey.
 Jing earned this title when the Olympic [...]

A firestorm of criticism – poor air quality, poor record on human rights, contaminated toys and pharmaceuticals and protests in Tibet does not bode well for China as it prepares to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

 By Jack Huang, China – February 2009
It’s not hard to understand why so many of my friends are excited that Barack Obama is the President of the U.S. Haunted by the phantom of China’s propaganda control which beats down hope in favor of the mandatory toeing of the Chinese government line, many 20 and 30 [...]

In order for China to rise to global prominence the country must be receptive to change.

By Jack Huang, China – August 2009
            Ms. Z is in prison. She is one of the latest prisoners of conscious arrested in Beijing. Ms. Z was an accountant for Open Constitution Initiative (OCI), which as its name suggests, was a legal advocacy group dedicated to reforming the judicial system and specifically helping the socially [...]

A terrible price is being paid in the loss of human life as the decade’s old conflict in Kashmir remains unresolved.

As Beijing pours a lot of money into sprucing up the city of Guangzhou in preparation of the 2010 Asian Games, unintended consequences of enforced “discipline” are causing residents to become angry.