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Don Lee, Bureau Chief
Don Lee has been based in Shanghai since 2004, focusing on economics and business in China. Born in Seoul, Don studied philosophy at the University of Chicago and obtained a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri. He joined the Times in 1992 after several years as a reporter at the Kansas City Star. During his years at the Times, he has held a variety of reporting and editing positions, including business editor in Orange County. He lives in Shanghai with his wife, Hyun, and their three children. EMAILDISPATCH FROM CHINA
A Times reporter and his friends have changed the way they feed their families amid China's melamine-tainted-milk scandal.
Children are taken for tests as fear grows with the scandal. Hong Kong officials issue a recall of milk products from the mainland.
Illnesses caused by tainted formula skyrocket, and more products test positive for contamination.
Two brothers are held in Hebei province, home to Sanlu Group, which sold the contaminated milk powder.
The move is an effort to spark growth in an economy slowed by the turmoil in the financial markets.
Yang Jia, convicted in the July stabbing deaths of six officers, had been in police custody last year. The attack prompted many Chinese to question police treatment of suspects.
OLYMPIC TRACK AND FIELD
Liu Xiang's withdrawal from the hurdles because of an Achilles injury leaves the Chinese heartbroken and questioning whether he was under too much pressure.
OLYMPIC TRACK AND FIELD
Liu Xiang's withdrawal from the hurdles because an Achilles injury leaves Chinese heartbroken and questioning whether he was under too much pressure.
The Shanghai index has fallen 15% since the Beijing Games opened, including a big hit Monday. Investors, who had hoped for a reversal of the year's downward trend, are angry.
Wu Jianping jumped from a Beijing building a day after questioning in a corruption probe, a Chinese magazine says.
COUNTDOWN TO BEIJING
Although the piracy police are cracking down, bootleg items are easy to find in Yatai Xinyang Fashion and Gift Market in Shanghai's Pudong district.
DRUGS
The blood-thinning drug may have come from a plant in China.
An entrepreneur from San Gabriel has founded a university that offers students English lessons and cheerleading.
The U.S. carmaker announces plans to build a facility there to study alternative fuels.