From the Standard: Yu Xiaogang calls himself “a fundamentalist communist” whose mission it is to fight for the “underprivileged.” His revolutionary bent is strong enough to have led him to join the Burmese Communist Party, alongside other volunteer leftists, to battle Burmese government forces in the jungles across the Chinese border. That war is long […]
Read MoreFrom China Daily Online: A right royal row over a once royal park has led to China’s first public hearing related to the environment and highlighted the country’s water shortage problem. Beijing’s Old Summer Palace, or Yuanmingyuan Park, which was burned down in 1860 by British and French troops and further destroyed in 1900 by […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua Online: Zhangjiagang, a city in east China’s Jiangsu Province, and six other cities have retained the title “environment-friendly” after passing their qualification re-examination by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), the country’s environmental watchdog. In a statement issued Friday, SEPA said the seven cities had made further achievements in the coordinated economic, social […]
Read MoreFrom the Daily Yomiuri Online: Countries around the world are competing for natural resources. A dispute over maritime resources in the East China Sea, for example, is one of the reasons anti-Japanese demonstrators in China have criticized Japan. Japan, which relies on other countries for most natural resources, is not thinking seriously about the changes […]
Read MoreFrom Radio Free Asia: China is once more attempting to solve massive energy shortages by forcing businesses to close during peak summer months, but experts say nationwide improvements to energy efficiency and reforms of the centrally planned price structure are the key to the country’s power problems. Shanghai“China’s biggest consumer of energy”has ordered 3,000 businesses […]
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