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Ching-Ching Ni, Correspondent
Ching-Ching Ni joined the Times foreign desk as Shanghai Bureau Chief in 2000 and moved to the Beijing bureau in 2003. Before coming to the Times, she was a reporter at Newsday in New York. She was born in Beijing and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. She graduated from Oberlin College and holds a joint masters degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the School of International and Public Affairs. EMAILOLYMPIC BASEBALL
But China defeats its island rival for the first time ever, 8-7, in a preliminary game. It was a surprise to both sides.
BEIJING 2008
Lu Xiangwu -- his birthday coinciding with the opening of the Games -- traveled by train to see them, having been assured of event tickets. The reality was different.
A rights group says she was held on charges of 'inciting state subversion.' Beijing appears to be cracking down on critics.
A wheelchair user is praised for protecting the torch in Paris, and a student is vilified online after landing in the middle of a debate over Tibet.
COLUMN ONE
Australia's wild horses are being shot to preserve the environment. One woman is determined to save them.
Column One
The country is a fast-growing producer of kosher-certified food. But inspection and approval require a cultural balancing act -- how do you explain the Book of Leviticus in an atheist nation?