From CRIEnglish: Golden Lion-winning Chinese director Jia Zhangke is considering defamation proceedings against film producer Zhang Weiping’s over allegations that his Venice Film Festival award was fixed. „ÄÄ„ÄÄ In an open letter to Zhang, director Zhang Yimou’s long-time producer, who also produced the box office hit “Curse of the Golden Flower“, Jia responded to Zhang’s […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Global warming threatens to intensify natural disasters and water shortages across China, driving down the country’s food output, the Chinese government has warned, even as its seeks to tame energy consumption. A forthcoming official assessment of the effects of global climate change on China will warn of worsening drought in northern China and […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times: Robert L. Pitman has spent 30 years studying the world’s whales, dolphins and other aquatic mammals. He returned to San Deigo, Calif., last week after a fruitless six-week expedition in which teams of five observers on two vessels scoured the Yangtze River from the Three Gorges Dam to Shanghai, seeking […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: On the edge of this dusty farming hamlet, the massive smokestack of the half-finished Xinfeng Power Plant looms as a monument to China’s out-of-control demand for energy. Unlike two other power plants nearby, Xinfeng isn’t supposed to exist. China’s electricity regulators never authorized the $362 million coal-burning plant. But in […]
Read MoreFrom BBC News: China has signalled that it could use its vast foreign exchange reserves to bolster its strategic energy resources. Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan said China needed to speed up the hunt for fresh oil and natural gas supplies. China’s foreign exchange reserves are the world’s largest at more than $1 trillion, supported by the […]
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