Word: heilongjiang
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...they themselves face threats too. "Street vendors are also using violence to fight against chengguan," He says. "Some have even formed mafia-like societies." On April 8 a city-management officer in the southern city of Shenzhen was stabbed to death by a vendor from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang. Witnesses told reporters that the chengguan officer and a partner had smashed a spicy-skewers stand where the man worked...
...here," says Baiyaertu. "You could see deer, roe deer, everything. Now there are people here, and the animals have all gone." Faced with a dwindling supply of game, the government outlawed hunting on the Oroqen banner in 1996. While it is permitted for part of the year in adjoining Heilongjiang province and some Oroqen still head to the mountains to poach, hunting is vanishing as a way of life. For a people whose culture is based on the nomadic pursuit of game, the effect has been devastating. "They can't adjust to the rhythm of modern life," says Baiyaertu...
...recent years, apparently inspired by this ecstatic form of worship. Often spawned by the personal ambition of their leaders, these highly secretive groups usually espouse millenarian views that make the authorities profoundly nervous. Members of a sect called the Three Grades of Servants were convicted earlier this year in Heilongjiang province on 20 murder charges, involving attacks on its main rival, Eastern Lightning, a sect that relies on kidnapping and beating to make converts. One of its central aims is the overthrow of the "Great Red Dragon," a thinly disguised reference to Beijing...
...Beijing Editorials in China reflecting Beijing's official line blame Washington for a lingering cold-war mentality and stay tight-lipped on Putin's authoritarian excesses. "It's the best relationship between China and Russia in years," says Jiang Zhenjun, a professor at the Institute of Russian Studies at Heilongjiang University in Harbin. "Some say the relationship has peaked, but I think it's more like a couple in love: they've decided to marry and now what's left is to learn to live together on a day-to-day basis." Even so, love may not conquer all. China...
...went to live in Onsong, a town near the border with China, and quickly decided that she would try to flee again. Her mother and an older sister had followed her out of North Korea and were living in Heilongjiang, a province in northeastern China. Refugees say the most common way to cross the 900-mile North Korea-- China border is to bribe a guard on the Korean side. Kim, however, relied on a friend who lived near the border and each night watched the routes patrolled by the guards. "You knew where they were going to be and where...