Civil Society Advocates Face Charges, Interrogations
Wu Rongrong is a women’s rights activist who was detained for over a month along with four...
Apr 28, 2015
Wu Rongrong is a women’s rights activist who was detained for over a month along with four...
Nov 3, 2012
Last weekend, following an increasingly familiar pattern, protests in the coastal city of Ningbo won the promised suspension of a controversial paraxylene (PX) plant. At China Media Project, David Bandurski discussed the role of...
Oct 18, 2012
In a new short documentary, ‘Hopeful’, Jonah Kessel shows the work of environmental NGO Friends of Nature in using new laws to hold companies accountable for their pollution. The film focuses on a Yunnan...
Nov 29, 2011
Tongxin, near Shanghai, is the site of a factory run by Apple supplier Kaedar. Marketplace’s Rob Schmitz found the villagers initially eager to talk about pollution from the plant, but this changed after local authorities...
Nov 17, 2011
Apple has admitted to pollution from more than half a dozen links in its Chinese supply chain during promised meetings with the organisations behind a damning report into the company’s environmental impact. From Caixin...
Apr 21, 2011
Beijing badly lacks water, but much of the available supply is slurped up by luxury apartments and bottling plants. Friends of Nature researchers have recently drawn attention to the additional drain of the million tons a year...
Feb 14, 2011
Newly published comments made by Vice Premier Li Keqiang last December outline China’s energy policy priorities, and appear to confirm the introduction of new pollution taxes as part of the country’s 12th Five Year...
Oct 28, 2010
Liang Congjie, founder of Friends of Nature, China’s first environmental NGO, and grandson of Qing Dynasty reformer Liang Qichao, has died at the age of 78. From Reuters: Liang, a senior member of the Chinese...