Dake Kang, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Protesters hold up blank papers and chant slogans as they march in protest in Beijing, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China's powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities struggled to suppress demonstrations Sunday that represent a rare direct challenge to the ruling Communist Party. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Crowd angered by China lockdowns calls for Xi to resign

by Dake Kang Associated Press, and Huizhong Wu Associated PressNovember 27, 2022

SHANGHAI — Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China’s powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities struggled to suppress demonstrations Sunday that represent a rare direct…

In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, police tape cordons off debris at the site of a plane crash in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Some of the personal effects of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern plane that one day earlier inexplicably fell...

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Wallets, IDs but no survivors found in China Eastern crash

by Dake Kang Associated Press, and Ng Han Guan Associated PressMarch 22, 2022

This undated photo provided by Ablikim Abliz, shows his uncle's family posing with an unknown Han Chinese man, second from the right, in Istanbul, Turkey. Abliz heard the Han Chinese man was part of a government homestay program meant to monitor his relatives, part of a broader crackdown on religious expression in China's far western region of Xinjiang. More than a million Chinese civil servants have been assigned to move into the homes of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities, spending weeks as uninvited guests. While government notices about the "Pair Up and Become Family" program portray it as an affectionate cultural exchange, exiled Uighurs living in Turkey said their loved ones saw the campaign as a chilling intrusion, aimed at coercing Uighurs into living secular lives like the Han majority. (Ablikim Abliz via AP)

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‘One family’: Party members take homestays in far west China

by Dake Kang Associated Press, and Yanan Wang Associated PressDecember 1, 2018

A security person walks outside the U.S. consulate building in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province, Thursday, June 7, 2018. The United States has evacuated several more government workers out of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou after medical testing revealed they might have been affected by unexplained health incidents that have already hurt U.S. personnel in Cuba, the State Department said Wednesday. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said "a number of...

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More staff at US consulate in China suffer mystery health issues

by Kelvin Chan Associated Press, and Dake Kang Associated PressJune 8, 2018

In this Aug. 27, 2017 photo, the Christopher Columbus statue stands at Manhattan's Columbus Circle in New York. A movement to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples Day has new momentum but the gesture to recognize victims of European colonialism has also prompted howls of outrage from some Italian Americans, who say eliminating their festival of ethnic pride is culturally insensitive, too. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)Bebeto Matthews

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Indigenous Peoples Day? No grazie

by Deepti Hajela Associated Press, and Dake Kang Associated PressOctober 8, 2017

Susan Bro, the mother of Heather Heyer, holds a photo of Bro's mother and her daughter, Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. Heyer was killed Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017, when police say a man plowed his car into a group of demonstrators protesting the white nationalist rally. Bro said that she is going to bare her soul to fight for the cause that her daughter died for. (AP Photo/Joshua Replogle)

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Charlottesville driver previously accused of beating mother

by Dake Kang Associated Press, and Sarah Rankin Associated PressAugust 15, 2017

Fred Warmbier, father of Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia undergraduate student who was imprisoned in North Korea in March 2016, speaks during a news conference, Thursday, June 15, 2017, at Wyoming High School in Cincinnati. Otto Warmbier, serving a 15-year prison term for alleged anti-state acts, was released to his home state of Ohio on Tuesday in a coma. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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Doctors: Student freed by N. Korea has severe brain damage

by Dake Kang Associated Press, and Dan Sewell Associated PressJune 15, 2017

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Crowd angered by China lockdowns calls for Xi to resign

Wallets, IDs but no survivors found in China Eastern crash

‘One family’: Party members take homestays in far west China

More staff at US consulate in China suffer mystery health issues

Indigenous Peoples Day? No grazie

Charlottesville driver previously accused of beating mother

Doctors: Student freed by N. Korea has severe brain damage

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