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From AP, via washingtonpost.com: China’s southwestern province of Yunnan will require annual AIDS tests for people working in hotels, nightclubs and other entertainment outlets, a local official and the government’s Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday. Under the new rules, announced Monday and effective immediately, those testing positive will be fired, Xinhua said, citing the text […]
Read MoreFrom CNN: Asia’s dwindling populations of river dolphins are under increasing threat from pollution, dam construction and entanglement in fishermen’s nets, global nature conservation body WWF has said. The warning, issued on the eve of U.N. World Water Day, said only 13 of the dolphins were known to be left in China’s Yangtze River where […]
Read MoreBoth AFP and People’s Daily covered a recent visit to China by environmentalist Lester Brown. According to the AFP report (via Channelnewsasia): China’s booming economic miracle is expanding at a highly unsustainable rate, creating tremendous pressures on resources while bankrupting the environment, a leading environmentalist warned. “I have a feeling we are on the edge […]
Read MoreIn response to pressure from the Bush administration, and to the recently approved anti-secession law, the EU has postponed lifting the arms embargo against China, according to this article from the New York Times: Yielding to pressure from President Bush and threats of retaliation from Congress, the European Union has put off plans to lift […]
Read MoreWal-Mart is planning to move its Asian headquarters to Shenzhen, according to this article in Eastday: Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, plans to move its Asian headquarters from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, a city in south China’s Guangdong Province, in 2006… Ding said besides Shenzhen’s location neighboring Hong Kong, support from its Chinese partners and […]
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