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Mark Magnier, Bureau Chief
Mark Magnier joined the Times in 1998 as Tokyo correspondent before being posted to Beijing in 2003. He has also done crisis reporting in Iraq, Israel and the West Bank, East Timor, Kashmir and Sri Lanka, where he ended up camping in nunneries and sleeping in goat sheds. Before joining the Times, he worked at the Journal of Commerce as a correspondent in Japan and Singapore and as the paper’s foreign editor and editorial director in New York. He is a graduate of Columbia College and attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. EMAILThe Beijing Games are over, declared a resounding success. The question now is whether China will finally loosen up or justify its authoritarianism.
BEIJING 2008
The move comes hours after the U.S. Embassy called for the men's release and expressed disappointment that the Games did not bring more tolerance to the nation.
BEIJING 2008
The director of 'Princess Wencheng' hopes audiences will take away the message that Tibet has always been part of China.
The Americans are stopped at an airport in Kunming. They say the won't leave until they get their 300 copies back.
Chen Shui-bian resigns after Swiss officials seek aid in an investigation of his son and daughter-inlaw.
BEIJING 2008
John Ray of London's ITV News is dragged away and held for 20 minutes. The International Olympic Committee says, 'We don't want to see this happening again.'
BEIJING 2008
Some activists say wacky antics will lead to more openness in China. Others urge less confrontational tactics.
The president touches on religious freedom in talks with China's top leader. A dissident is reportedly stopped from attending the same worship service as Bush.
Viruses and malicious software have been traced to China.
Assailants mount an attack near a border police station in Xinjiang, wounding 16 other officers. Meanwhile, protesters clash with police near Tiananmen Square, and in Nepal authorities arrest 250 Tibe
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Foreign journalists are given a rare tour of a military base, as Beijing seeks to put its friendliest face forward.
The DreamWorks comedy is the top-grossing animated film ever in China. Critics and creators there say censors would have never let anything like it come from within.
The city is also pushing mass transit and staggering workers' hours in its efforts to fight smog and ease traffic congestion.
Pyongyang may stall proceedings and seek a better deal with the next U.S. president.
OLYMPICS
Some foreign coaches feel a culture clash with a Chinese sports system that resists change even as it demands near-immediate results.
OLYMPICS
The Beijing Olympics' host nation has been driving its sports system for years to demonstrate its superiority over the West.
Riots -- check. Earthquake -- check. Flood -- check. Plague -- check. Such a concentration of woes in this high-profile year has fanned rumors and superstition.
The capital is under a state of emergency after perceived voter fraud ignites rioting.
A farmer used a poster cutout and wooden paw to stage the scene, which was disputed from the start by Internet activists. Some say he is a scapegoat for authorities who masterminded the stunt.
OLYMPICS
Few have doubts the city will have stadiums and other tasks finished in time for the Aug. 8 start, as citizens hope pride overshadows global protests.
The Tibetan violence was a jolt to officials, and they'll seek to quash the risk of other unrest ahead of the Olympics, experts say.
DISPATCH FROM XIAHE, CHINA
The revolt by ethnic Tibetans revealed a police apparatus that, despite its size and liberty to act, was caught unawares.
It is two miles long, half a mile wide and expected to handle more passengers than any in the world. And it was built fast -- in time for the Summer Olympics.
COLUMN ONE
Ordinary Chinese are upset at the harsh sentence for a man who took free money from his machine. A rare retrial puts focus on a two-tiered justice system.
For many Americans with adopted Chinese children, dreams of a visit during the Games in Beijing prove too pricey.
Russia and China, which stand to benefit from the U.S. intelligence shift on the nuclear weapons issue, remain wary.