In China, Pulled by Opposing Tides
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CAOTANG, China -- This week in Caotang village, members of the Huang family were preparing for the Chinese New Year by making traditional dishes, scrubbing their already spotless homes and paying their respects to the family patriarch.
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The Chinese government is trying to address an electricity shortage that has led to rationing in more than a third of the countryâs provinces in recent weeks.
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FENGHUA, China  - The enemy of my enemy is my  friend. It is such an enemy that China's communist leaders are  bringing into play as they struggle to counter the drive for  independence by an island it views as a renegade province.
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Tidal waves like those that wreaked havoc across Asia can travel at hundreds of kilometres (miles) per hour and even gain strength as they cross the ocean -- often causing disastrous results far from their origin.
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GUIHUA, China -- For years now, nearly half the rice, wheat and vegetable farmers in this village in Henan province have been unable to make a living off their land. They have turned instead to more profitable migrant work in large, faraway cities.
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BEIJING -- They have been called invaders, impractical eggheads, and barbarians intent on destroying the feng shui, the ancient art of harmony and balance. They are tripping over themselves to work in China. And like it or not, they are remaking the face of the country.
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By Photos by Gary Whitney For the Deseret Morning News  When Gary and Susan Whitney went to China this fall, their brains were overwhelmed with images: Rising water in the Yangtze River Gorge. Pandas lazing about in trees. Temples. Pagodas. Soviet-style apartment buildings.
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In China, the stock market dominos could fall. But a collapse would not resemble 1997âs.
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KOTA KINABALU: When the full moon rises, coastal dwellers all over the country cast worried glances at the sea.  It is a worrying time for thousands as their homes, livelihood and lives are mere metres from being swallowed by hungry waves.
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A small but growing band of Chinese lawyers is pushing for reform in the country's courts. The political hurdles are huge, but their case is being heard
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It's taking on water, and debt.
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MERAK, Indonesia  - Indonesia's rust-bucket ferries are a symbol of the decrepit infrastructure which has plagued Southeast Asia's biggest economy and prevented it from matching China's meteoric growth rate.
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AMBALANGODA, Sri Lanka -- Asia's tsunami disaster dealt sharply different fates to those along the coasts, depending on how far they lived from the shore.
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Rising wages on China's more prosperous eastern coast are pushing some factories inland where labor is cheap.
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But Chinaâs move to cool its heated stock market limited Wall Streetâs broader advance and raised concern about a global equity sell-off.
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XIAMEN, China  - Just over a decade ago, China lobbed missiles into waters near Taiwan in an attempt to influence the island's presidential election. Troops were mobilized and fighter jets readied.
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By Zheng Lifei  Gu Zhaodi had never had to think about water. It was taken for granted. In fact, no one in this beautiful lake city of Wuxi had bothered to spare a thought on one of the most vital elements of life.  But all that changed dramatically overnight last week.