From Reuters: Deaths from floods, lightning and landslides across China this summer have reached nearly 700, state media said on Monday, with experts warning that global warming is likely to fuel more violent weather. Over the weekend alone, fierce storms and hail killed 17 people across four provinces. Summer storms are nothing new in China, […]
Read MoreGirl in Hong Kong who is playing with a toy, from filmmaker in japan, via flickr.
Read MoreChina is attempting to force companies to upgrade their technology by imposing export limits on manufactured goods and by restricting raw materials imports. From Bloomberg: China will curb exports of cheap labor-intensive products to force manufacturers into making higher-quality goods, in a move to narrow the world’s largest trade surplus and reduce environmental damage. The […]
Read MoreChina Environmental News Digest has published a slideshow of eco-city Dongtan to accompany an article by Mackenzie Funk which first ran in Popular Science: [Image: The proposed Dongtan site as seen from the Yangtze River. Green spaces are a integral part of the plan: all residents will be within walking distance public green areas.]
Read MoreFrom CNN: With a year to go before the 2008 Olympics get under way, questions linger over China’s efforts to improve its human rights record. Observers and pressure groups have criticized the efforts of the Chinese government and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) since Beijing won the bid in 2001, rejecting assertions by both that […]
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