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...They live in hiding with relatives, in clandestine safe house in border towns or in remote mountain hideouts, trying to stay a step ahead of the Chinese police?and the dreaded North Korean agents. In recent months, however, their situation has grown more desperate. China has launched a broad crackdown on the North Koreans, who are considered refugees by the rest of the world but illegal aliens by Beijing. In Yanji, in eastern Jilin province, North Korean families last week were scrambling to avoid getting caught up in house-to-house searches. Police have posted notices urging people to report...
...what Oh Chang Shik has discovered. He lost his right to reside in China when he moved from there to the more prosperous North Korea in the '60s. After two of his eight children died of hunger, he returned to Yanji in 1998. Last week, as part of the crackdown, Oh was taken away by police but managed to escape when their car had a flat tire. He is now in hiding again. In the border towns, too, North Koreans are living on the edge. Park Hye Sook crossed the frozen Tumen in January. At first life got better...
...Karmapa's escape?eight days by jeep, horse, helicopter, train and car?to Dharamsala and the Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile was initially viewed as proof that a united fight for Tibetan independence endures. But then came the crackdown. China closed Tsurphu to visitors and arrested the devout. This February, the U.S. State Department reported that since the Karmapa's departure, "a large number of monks and nuns remain detained or imprisoned." The monastery is now open again. (The official Chinese explanation for shutting it: the peeling frescoes needed repair.) But the thousands of visitors who made...
...Beijing's bureaucrats, who spent plenty of time and money earning genuine degrees. The Education Ministry hopes to set up a national computer database by the end of this year that will help prospective employers determine whether the university degrees of potential hires are authentic. Beijing's latest antipiracy crackdown is targeting manufacturers of fake certificates. A raid this year in Shanghai's Qingpu district netted 1,000 fake drivers' licenses, 1,050 fraudulent diplomas and a cache of forged car and motorcycle plates. Children, too, are in on the game. In the northeastern city of Changchun, vendors loiter near...
...been forced, as he put it, "in the higher national interest" to essentially call off an intifada that has claimed almost 500 Palestinian lives without realizing any tangible gains. Indeed, on the weekend that he made his call, all West Bank and Gaza Palestinians were facing the harshest crackdown in years on their movements and livelihoods. Sections of Arafat's own Fatah movement that have openly defied him for months met Sunday with Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other radical factions to discuss the latest cease-fire efforts, and vowed to fight on. Arafat will find it difficult to persuade...