Reporting From Xinjiang

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张楠, 记者手记：在新疆采访. VOA Chinese, Nov. 22, 2009.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/Report_xinjiang_20091122-70833562.html

Note:
(a) In English, the Karakorum Mountains.

喀喇昆仑山脉
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/喀喇昆仑山脉
("突厥语意为'黑色岩山'")

* Compare 昆仑山 (崑崙山 in traditional Chinese): Kunlun Mountains

(b) 喀什地区
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/喀什地区
(including 喀什市 and 喀什市, among other places)


--------------Separately
(1) 中国旅美作家郑念友人为其举行悼念. VOA Chinese, Nov. 22, 2009.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/NIEN_CHENG_REMEMBERED_20091122-70968187.html

(2) 鹤岗矿难后善后工作开始煤矿继续运作. VOA Chinese, Nov. 22, 2009.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/Coal_mines_blast_20091122-70845197.html

(3) 达赖喇嘛：奥巴马没对中国软弱. BBC Chinese, Nov. 22, 2009.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2009/11/091122_dalai_obama.shtml

My comment: The Dalai Lama mgiht be one of the few who praises Pres. Obama's
trip to China. I want to give the president a break.

(4) 被指窃取福特机密 郁向东面临新指控. BBC Chinese, Nov. 22, 2009.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/china/2009/11/091122_ford_yu_case.shtml
(Dr. 郁向东)

(5) Frederik Balfour, A Slog in China for Foreign Insurers;
How mainland rules are giving an egde to domestic rivals. BusinessWeek, Nov.
12, 2009 (title in the print).
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_47/b4156024704499.htm?chan=magazine+channel_new+business
("life insurance premiums represent just 2.2% of China's gross domestic
product, vs. 13.6% in Taiwan and 9.9% in Hong Kong")

In the window of the print edition: 4.7%  Market share of foreign companies
in China's life-insurance market

(6) J.M. Lawrence, Obituary: Lewis Millett; awarded Medal of Honor after
bayonet charge. Boston Globe, Nov. 19, 2009.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2009/11/19/lewis_millett_awarded_medal_of_honor_after_bayonet_charge/


~~~~~~~Quote starts here
President Truman presented him with the Medal of Honor, citing his actions
in leading his men under heavy fire in a ferocious attack to take Hill 180
near the village of Soam-Ni on Feb. 7, 1951.

Colonel Millett, then a captain, had seen Chinese propaganda fliers saying
that Americans were afraid of hand-to-hand combat.

“When I read that, I thought, ‘I’ll show you,'" he said in a 2006
interview with the journal Military History.

He trained his men in “cold steel" combat. After one of his platoons was
pinned down, he ordered his men to fix bayonets. Despite being wounded in
the leg by shrapnel, he led the charge while lobbing grenades and bayoneting
and clubbing the enemy.

The official medal citation reads: “His dauntless leadership and personal
courage so inspired his men that they stormed into the hostile position and
used their bayonets with such lethal effect that the enemy fled in wild
disorder."

The assault, according to historian S.L.A. Marshall, was “the most complete
bayonet charge by American troops since Cold Harbor,’’ a Civil War battle
in 1864.
~~~~~~~~~~~Quote ends here

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest. He is funny, though.
(b) Paragraph 3 stated he "grew up in Dartmouth," Massachusetts which is a
town in near Rhode Island.

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