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From the Washington Post: China has completed at least one new drilling platform in the East China Sea and may already be tapping into hotly contested natural gas and oil fields, escalating a dispute with Japan over the rights to billions of dollars worth of underwater energy reserves, according to Japanese reconnaissance data. The Chinese […]
Read MoreESWN has translated a report from Xici Hutong about the harassment of a reporter at Taizhou Evening News by policemen who complained that his report on traffic fees was inaccurate: At the time of the incident, several dozens of traffic police officers had gone to the office of Taizhou Evening News to complain about a […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: Chinese plans to turn an untamed river into a hydro-electric hub have sparked a war of words about national priorities as the government rethinks the balance between economic growth and environmental protection. Officials and experts in Beijing debated at the weekend a plan to harness the Nu River in southwest Yunnan province with […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters, via CNN: China, once accused of being slow to acknowledge the threat of AIDS, could have as many as 10 million HIV carriers in five years if no effective preventive measures are taken, state media said on Monday, echoing a grim UN warning. China says it has 840,000 HIV-AIDS cases among its 1.3 […]
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China is to blacklist cities that fail to reach national air quality standards and penalise them by warning off investors, state media quoted environment officials as saying on Monday. The State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) will also control construction projects that could worsen air pollution in the worst-offending cities. More on this topic, […]
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