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From AP, via the New York Times: The Asian Development Bank on Thursday projected a bird flu pandemic in Asia could kill around 3 million people, cause economic losses of up to nearly $300 billion and possibly push the world into a recession. China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand would likely be hit hardest […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: For the author of one of China’s best-selling novels of recent years, and moreover, one about rugged life among wolves on the Mongolian plains, Jiang Rong makes a surprisingly timid introduction. “I am sorry, I have no name cards,” said the man meekly as he entered the living room of […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: By boycotting a dam conference organized by the government, Chinese environmentalists have protested the lack of transparency in a river project to build the world’s largest hydroelectric cascade on the Nu River in southwestern China that flows into Myanmar and Thailand. The environmentalists feared that the conference, held […]
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune, via Newsday.com: Amid the blitz of reports on bird flu outbreaks across Asia and Europe, scientists agree one place stands out: China. It is a special case not simply because China is home to more than one-fifth of the world’s population, but because it holds the grim distinction as an incubator […]
Read MoreFrom Inter Press Service, via Asia Times: Increasingly aware of the deteriorating state of China’s environment, the Chinese leadership has decided that it wants the national economy to not only grow fast, but grow green. They have asked state planners to develop a new indicator to measure the country’s growth, a “green GDP“, which would […]
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