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From the New York Times (read the full text on Peking Duck): There are only about 60 gold-standard green buildings in the world – that is, buildings certified by the U.S. Green Building Council as having been made with the materials and systems that best reduce waste, emissions and energy use. One of those buildings […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via the International Herald Tribune: China plans to abolish the legal division between urban and rural residents in 11 provinces to protect the rights of migrants needed for labor in booming cities, though a similar experiment failed four years ago, the official media said Wednesday. The new policy would drop the decades-old “hukou,” […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via Turkishpress.com: In their quest for profits, Western companies are selling press muzzling equipment to China, censoring their search engines or blog tools and even passing on information that may help reveal the identity of journalists critical of Beijing, media freedom groups say. Equipment by French group Thales is used to jam foreign […]
Read MoreFrom Forbes.com: Bank of China Ltd, one of the country’s big four state-owned commercial banks, has not received a response from shareholders on Temasek’s planned buy-in, a bank official said. Zhu Min, assistant to the president of Bank of China, told reporters the bank has submitted the deal for regulators and shareholders to review but […]
Read MoreFrom the New York Times: Geneticists have identified a major lineage of Y chromosomes in populations of northern China that they believe may mark the bearers as descendants of one of the Manchu conquerors who founded the Qing dynasty and ruled China from 1644 to 1911. Because the founder of the lineage lived some 500 […]
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