CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
October 21, 2011 | By Phil Willon and Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times
A Chinese delegation of government officials and journalists was bused to the vacant Hillcrest High School in Riverside recently for a tour of the newly constructed $105-million campus. The event was hosted by Chino businessman David Li Chen, and guests included former California Secretary of Education Dave Long. But confusion over the Sept. 30 event's exact purpose has unleashed a flurry of claims and denials — covered breathlessly by the Chinese media — that a deal had been struck to turn the unopened high school into a school for students from China as well as the United States.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
May 11, 2003 | Cara Mia DiMassa, Times Staff Writer
Six days after announcing a ban on students from SARS-affected countries attending summer classes at UC Berkeley, university officials announced Saturday that they will ease the ban and open the school to about 80 students from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. "We are not able to lift all of the limits," UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl said in a statement to the media. "But we are able to lift some of them."
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 8, 1995 | MAKI BECKER
They were shy, scared and barely spoke a word of English in October when they arrived at Los Angeles International Airport from China. But after they studied English for five months at Hale Middle School in Woodland Hills, their language skills have improved markedly. And now, the youngest group of foreign exchange students between the United States and China can have conversations with their American peers during nutrition and lunch breaks.
NEWS
May 16, 1992 | Associated Press
A teacher in central China was sentenced to two years in jail for forcing his students to eat cow dung, according to an official news report. The fourth-grade teacher forced his students to eat dung when they handed in assignments late, didn't pay attention in class or fought. Of his class of 34, only two with good grades and five who were related to him escaped punishment, the report said.
NEWS
June 16, 1990 | LOUIS SAHAGUN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
When nine Cal Poly Pomona students wrote to China's top Communist last March seeking an explanation for last year's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing, what they expected was a form letter in reply. Instead, they were invited to the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles on Friday to receive an extraordinarily detailed, 10-page answer from Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the Communist Party in China.
NEWS
June 2, 1990 | From Times Wire Services
Chinese authorities Friday praised last year's military crackdown on the democracy movement and told thousands of schoolchildren that they owe their right to assemble in Tian An Men Square to the valor of the army. The comments came during International Children's Day celebrations held in Beijing's Tian An Men Square, the heart of massive student-led democracy protests crushed by the army last June 3-4.