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Day Three: Shanghai is built
by
Kai Ryssdal
Jun 1, 2011
All the cranes are gone. There are no new skyscrapers going up. One of the centers of Chinese capitalism isn't building anymore.
Day Two: Signs of change in China
by
Kai Ryssdal
May 31, 2011
A lot has changed since Marketplace visited China for a special two-week broadcast in 2006. Host Kai Ryssdal offers some observations from his visit this time around.
Excerpt: It's summer in China, kind of
May 31, 2011
Kai Ryssdal and team check in from China with an audio excerpt from day one of their two-week reporting trip. The topic: Weather.
China's stock market advances after 8 straight losing days
by
Rob Schmitz
May 31, 2011
The Shanghai Composite is looking up today with a 1 percent gain, but investors are now concerned China's interest rates may be on the rise again.
Day One: Remembering and revisiting China
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Kai Ryssdal
May 30, 2011
This week, Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal and a small team return to China -- retracing the steps they took nearly five years ago on a similar trip -- to see what has changed.
Chinese prisoners forced to play video games
by
John Moe
May 27, 2011
That's the claim that a former prisoner made to the London newspaper The Guardian. He said that prisoners were forced by prison guards to play...
Ballmer goes to China, blasts China
by
John Moe
May 27, 2011
The Microsoft CEO was in Beijing for the opening of a Microsoft R&D facility. He used the occasion to complain that Microsoft is seeing only...
For public good, not for profit.
Foxconn closes Chengdu facility
by
John Moe
May 24, 2011
Not something that I love talking about because it seems so crass but the explosion at Foxconn's Chengdu factory in China looks to have a big...
Third Foxconn worker dies
by
John Moe
May 23, 2011
An explosion of combustible dust at a Foxconn manufacturing facility has resulted in a third death. The victim was a worker at the Foxconn plant in...
Chinese egg and shoe attack possible
by
John Moe
May 20, 2011
Weird headline, I know. Weird story too. A Twitter user who claims to be in China has claimed to have thrown an egg and a shoe at Fang Binxing, the...