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Contributors | Jonathan Kaiman

Jonathan Kaiman is a writer in Beijing. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications.

In China, Clean Water Comes at High Cost

By Jonathan Kaiman | Mar 29, 2012

BEIJING -- Fifty-eight year-old Zhang Hui has never had a problem finding safe drinking water—not in his first village in central Zhejiang province, which the local government demolished to build a wastewater treatment plant, and not in his second village, a cluster of concrete mid-rises next to a textile plant that belches orange-red smoke from three large smokestacks, blanketing the area in a no

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North Korea Edges Toward Humanitarian Crisis

By Jonathan Kaiman | Feb 22, 2012

A mother and her child at the Provincial Pediatric Hospital in Hamhung City, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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