From The New York Times, via A Glimpse of the World: There is a growing uneasiness in the air in China, after months of increasingly bold protests rolling across the countryside. For reasons that range from rampant industrial pollution to widespread evictions and land seizures by corrupt local governments in cahoots with increasingly powerful property […]
Read MoreChinese authorities often uses “state secrets” charges to arrest government critics and others who write or talk about sensitive political subjects, including journalists Zhao Yan and Shi Tao. Yet the government has...
Read MoreFrom The BusinessWeekly Online: The 2008 Beijing Olympics don’t look like much today. At most of the sites around the city, ground has barely been broken. But look a little closer and you’ll find that the games have already had a dramatic impact in the form of a thorough pollution clean-up. China’s leadership knows the […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via Boston.com: Protesters demanding the closure of an eastern China battery factory they say is spewing lead into the environment clashed with police, and dozens of people were injured, witnesses and hospital officials said Sunday. After the initial melee with police, thousands of demonstrators torched police cars and broke into government offices, witnesses […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via iAfrica.com: China, the factory of the world, is slowly being choked by the pollution brought on by its unrelenting economic transformation and the government is starting to realise it needs to do something about it. Environmentalists describe the situation as extremely serious, but they say a window of opportunity still exists to […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Pulse, via Asia Times: China is gearing up to develop clean energy by using nuclear, wind and solar sources to generate power in order to cut reliance on coal and oil, said a senior official from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). “The government is vigorously making efforts to tap clean energies […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal, via A Glimpse of the World: As corporate ambitions bore deeper into China, foreign companies are sending families to less-developed cities like Chongqing. Such places offer huge, untapped markets for companies. They also provide accelerated career opportunities to young executives eager to punch their ticket on the way to upper […]
Read MoreFrom the AP, via the Columbia Daily Tribune: Farmers had long feared the runoff from the pharmaceutical factory. It turned irrigation water to a greasy, red sludge and stunted vegetable crops. They blamed it for a local rise in cancer and birth defects. When a drought concentrated pollutants such as never before, they turned to […]
Read MoreFrom The New York Times, via Shanghai Journal: As people in this richest of Chinese cities have grown more and more affluent, they have displayed an American-style passion for the automobile. But for Shanghai, as for much of China, getting rich and growing attached to cars have increasingly gone hand in hand, and have produced […]
Read MoreFrom AFP, via The Africa Leader: China risks serious social instability unless it quickly tackles widespread discontent over worsening pollution and officially-backed land requisitions that have sparked major public demonstrations, analysts and environmentalists say. Violent public protests throughout China are happening with increasing regularity as anger erupts at what is seen as the ruling Communists […]
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