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Chemistry World Magazine reports that the Chinese government is launching a plan that aims to get 15% of the country’s energy from renewable sources by the year 2020: Currently, renewables account for under 7.5 per cent of China’s energy supplies while 70 per cent comes from coal. If the country – the world’s second-largest carbon […]
Read MoreThe Guardian writes about the former provincial official brought down by his 11 mistresses: Pang Jiayu, the former deputy head of the provincial political advisory body, has been sacked and expelled from the Communist party after his former girlfriends exposed him, the People’s Daily said. As at least the fourth cadre to lose his job […]
Read MoreAt the APEC meetings, Hu Jintao has called on developing countries to meet the targets for carbon emissions set by the Kyoto Protocol. From the Herald Sun: Mr Hu, who has cautiously backed Prime Minister John Howard’s plan for a Sydney declaration on aspirational targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, made the call in his […]
Read MoreReuters writes about the slogans that define a leader: Within a year of Hu taking power in 2002, the “scientific concept of development” began working its way into official pronouncements and the phrase “harmonious society” popped up on every banner from Beijing to Buddhist Tibet. With a five-yearly party congress due to open in October […]
Read MoreBBC reporter Dan Griffiths gives a first-person account of being detained and questioned while reporting from Shengyou, Hebei, the scene of a violent conflict between villagers and police in 2005: Round a bend in the road, I see two white vans. Several policemen are standing beside them. They look as out of place in rural […]
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