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From the International Herald Tribune: There was a time when the comparatively wealthy residents of Hong Kong were skeptical about the economic and social rewards of the mainland tourist invasion. Mainlanders were seen as lower spending and more demanding than either European or North American visitors. But one new study of the economics of Chinese […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: When the construction of some 30 big projects were suspended at a mandate from the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) in December 2004, China was taking the most notable move in enforcing environmental laws. Their construction was put to a halt for the projects, most of them hydro- or thermal power plants, failed […]
Read MoreFrom the Los Angeles Times: This village on the edge of the Gobi desert entered the 21st century much as it had the previous one, with yellow sand blanketing the mountains and poor farmers sharing their mud huts with cows, donkeys and pigs. No homes had running water. No shops sold clothes, just bundles of […]
Read MoreFrom GeoTimes: China is changing. The past several decades have seen immense booms in the country’s demand for energy, steel, water and other natural resources that were already in scarce supply, in a country that is almost the size of the United States but has more than four times the population. Worries over the giant […]
Read MoreFrom the Chicago Tribune: Above a shuttered fertilizer store in this eastern China town, men and women are locked up because their relatives will not agree to undergo government-ordered sterilization or abortion, according to current and former detainees. Such detentions are against the law in China, where peasants and activists are trying to cast new […]
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