From China Daily Online: Cashmere is known as “soft gold” or ” the diamond of fibre,” due to its rarity and incomparable quality. But China, the world’s largest cashmere producer and exporter, seems not to be enjoying the golden opportunities to be had from a properly run industry.

From Telegraph: Rubbish from British recycling bins is being transported half way across the world to blight China’s booming coastal cities, usually in plumes of acrid black smoke. Its fate is very different from that conscientious householders imagine when they sift through the detritus of their daily lives and sort it into separate piles for […]