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From the AP, via Business Week: China plans to spend 800 million yuan (US$100 million; euro78 million) over the next decade on studying natural gas hydrates, an alternative fuel Beijing hopes might help to limit its growing reliance on oil imports, the government said Wednesday. Trial exploration of methane hydrate, a crystalline compound of water […]
Read MoreFrom The Guardian: When the first cracks appeared in the concrete base and bridges of the Qinghai Tibet railway, just weeks after the carefully staged, triumphal opening on July 1 (the 85th birthday of the Chinese Communist party), they were not the only sign that all is not well with China’s policies in Tibet. The […]
Read MoreThe New York Times Science section has a lengthy profile of dissident physicist Xu Liangying: For seven decades, Xu Liangying has been Albert Einstein’s man in China, intertwining revolution and physics to speak up for political freedom and the value of scientific curiosity in a land where the rulers have often had a different agenda. […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: China has blamed fraud in project approvals and failure to apply emission control measures for rising pollution, state media reported Monday, as the authorities grappled with the environmental impact of headlong economic growth. The director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, Zhou Shengxian, said pollution had increased in 17 provinces […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: A Chinese researcher for the New York Times who was tried by Beijing on charges of revealing state secrets is set for a court hearing on Friday, raising the possibility of a verdict, his lawyer said on Monday. Zhao Yan, who began work at the New York Times’s Beijing bureau in 2004, was […]
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