From the New York Times, more efforts to clean up Beijing air before August: Faced with persistent air pollution despite promises to stage a green Olympics, Beijing is planning to reduce the city’s motor traffic by half during the games to improve air quality and ease traffic flow, according to a report Wednesday in local […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India described Tuesday an ascendant Asia in which India and China had a special opportunity to overcome historic hostilities, promote regional development and collaborate on concerns about energy, food security and water supplies. “Our systems are different, but people in both countries are united in […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India will arrive in Beijing on Sunday for a three-day visit to China, with each country eager to increase bilateral trade, promote mutual friendship and offer reassurances that Asia is big enough to accommodate the ambitions of both rising powers. Mr. Singh is visiting China […]
Read MoreA new study questions the Beijing government’s claims that it can meet pollution targets for the Olympics. From the New York Times: The study, written by an American environmental consultant, found flaws in Beijing’s “Blue Sky” system of air quality monitoring stations and noted that the city changed its method for measuring pollution in 2006. […]
Read MoreThe New York Times reports that the government will freeze energy prices, while also setting price controls on other key consumer goods, in an effort to curb inflation: Prime Minister Wen Jiabao responded Wednesday to growing public anxiety about inflation by announcing that China would freeze energy prices in the near term, even as international […]
Read MoreTenth installment of the New York Times’ environmental series Choking on Growth [Image: Beijing traffic via nytimes.com]: Every day, monitoring stations across the city measure air pollution to determine if the skies above this national capital can officially be designated blue. It is not an act of whimsy: with Beijing preparing to play host to […]
Read MoreIn the latest in its Choking on Growth series, the New York Times looks at the plight of the Yangtze soft-shelled turtle, of which there are possibly only two left in the world: For many Chinese, turtles symbolize health and longevity, but the saga of the last two Yangtze giant soft-shells is more symbolic of […]
Read MoreFourth installment of New York Times mega environmental series: Last year, Chinese officials celebrated the completion of the Three Gorges Dam by releasing a list of 10 world records. As in: The Three Gorges is the world’s biggest dam, biggest power plant and biggest consumer of dirt, stone, concrete and steel. Ever. Even the project’s […]
Read MoreIn Part II of their Choking on Growth series, the New York Times takes on the issue of water, or the lack thereof, in China: For three decades, water has been indispensable in sustaining the rollicking economic expansion that has made China a world power. Now, China’s galloping, often wasteful style of economic growth is […]
Read MoreUpdate: Zhao was released early Saturday morning. Journalist and former New York Times researcher Zhao Yan is slated to be released from prison this weekend, according to the New York Times: Prison officials in Beijing told Mr. Zhao’s older sister that he would be released before 9 a.m. on Saturday. The sister, Zhao Kun, said […]
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