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From AP, via CBS News: China’s skies have darkened over the past 50 years, possibly due to haze resulting from a nine-fold increase in fossil fuel emissions, according to researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy. The researchers, writing in this month’s edition of Geophysical Research Letters, found that the amount of solar radiation measured […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: Even though Deng Xiaoping declared that getting rich is glorious nearly three decades ago, just a few years back China’s millionaires were running scared. When a Forbes Magazine survey of China’s richest appeared in 1999, wags called it the “death list” after a tax crackdown targeted many who made the cut and […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: Led by surging exports, China’s economy grew by 9.9 percent last year, the government announced Wednesday, underscoring the swiftness by which this once insular communist country has remade itself into a global trading power. The rapid expansion appears to move China’s economy ahead of those of Great Britain, France and Italy […]
Read MoreFrom Time Europe: Really now, isn’t working tirelessly toward a shared goal with your allies wonderful? Who wouldn’t share in the joy of E.U. foreign affairs czar Javier Solana, German Chancellor Angela Merkel or even ” yes ” President George W. Bush, as they rhapsodize about the way in which the U.S and the leading […]
Read MoreFrom Time Asia: Lin Yudui was considered the lucky brother. Like more than 100 million Chinese peasants, he left his rural roots behind for a job in the big city. His younger sibling stayed in the family’s hometown, the hamlet of Dongzhou in southern China’s Guangdong province. In early December, when Lin returned for a […]
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