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From Three Gorges Probe: A cancer cluster that has been linked to water pollution in a village downstream of the Danjiangkou dam in Hubei province highlights the human misery caused by China’s poisoned rivers. It also raises fears that the south-north water transfer project, which will divert river water from central China to major cities […]
Read MoreFrom The Age: LI QUN spends 12 hours a day, seven days a week building the new China. She has not seen her three children, 13, 7 and 6, for more than a year. She and her husband Lu Shigui left their village near the city of Nanchong in Sichuan province for Beijing after a […]
Read MoreFrom The Observer: France, Germany and other states that have coddled up to the Communist dictatorship in Beijing will one day have to answer to the Chinese people, one of the country’s leading civil rights activist has told The Observer. Gao Zhisheng, a firebrand lawyer who has defended hundreds of victims of torture and persecution, […]
Read MoreFrom Newsweek: While experts in the United States and Europe talk about reviving plans for nuclear power, China, as in so many other fields, is racing ahead. The so-called pebblebed technology behind the Beijing test plant originated in Germany more than three decades ago, and the U.S. nuclear-power industry also pursued it. But when public […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Growing numbers of mainlanders are investing in art and antiquities, snapping up everything from ancient Chinese scrolls and traditional ink paintings to the works of French Impressionists. BusinessWeek Asia Correspondent Frederik Balfour spoke with Ken Yeh, deputy chairman of Christie’s Asia in Hong Kong, about the auction house’s efforts to woo more […]
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