Emily Wang, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

Residents wearing masks line up for mass COVID testing in Chaoyang District on Monday, April 25, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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Most of Beijing to be mass-tested

by Emily Wang Associated Press, and Ken Moritsugu Associated PressApril 25, 2022

BEIJING — Beijing will conduct mass testing of most of its 21 million people, authorities announced Monday, as a new COVID-19 outbreak sparked stockpiling of food by residents worried about the possibility of a Shanghai-style lockdown. The Chinese…

Peaks reach toward the sky in Angsai, an area inside the Sanjiangyuan region in western China's Qinghai province. Ringed by the world’s tallest mountain ranges, the region long known as “the rooftop of the world” is now in the crosshairs of China’s latest modernization push. But this time, the Chinese government wants to set limits on the region’s growth in order to implement its own version of one of the U.S.’s proudest legacies — a national park system.

China aims to build its own Yellowstone on Tibetan plateau

by Christina Larson Associated Press, and Emily Wang Associated PressNovember 13, 2019

A woman walks past houses destroyed by Thursday’s earthquake in Mashiki, Kumamoto prefecture, southern Japan, Friday. The powerful earthquake struck Thursday night, knocking down houses and buckling roads.

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2nd strong quake hits southern Japan; some reported trapped

by Emily Wang Associated Press, and Mari Yamaguchi Associated PressApril 15, 2016