From Bloomberg.com (link): Rich nations aren’t used to the dark side of globalization. For them, the phenomenon tends to reduce costs, boosting corporate profits, securities markets and living standards. Recently, wealthy economies have gotten a taste of globalization’s other side. High-paying jobs are migrating to cheaper locales, while demand from developing nations is driving up […]
Read MoreA report today from the Chinese government acknowledges the mounting environmental impact posed by unrestrained industrialization and promised government regulation. From Xinhua: The Chinese government has pledged to give priority to curbing pollution and maintaining a balance between economic and social development and the environment over the next 15 years. According to a decision by […]
Read MoreFrom Xinhua: As the 60-kilometer-long pollution slick on the Yellow River is moving further downstream, the government of east China’s Shandong Province lifted warning early Monday at two monitoring points bordering Shandong and Henan provinces. The water quality at Xiezhai and Liuzhuang points met safety standards at 2:00 a.m. Monday. The density of diesel oil […]
Read MoreFrom Business Week: As the recent benzene spill shows, worsening pollution increasingly endangers Chinese citizens, and their spreading anger is worrying Beijing. The 50-mile long slick of highly poisonous benzene and nitrobenzene clogging China’s Songhua River finally cleared the city of Harbin on Nov. 27, and drinking water was turned back on for the far […]
Read MoreFrom The International Herald Tribune: The government on Thursday blamed China’s biggest oil company for a pollution spill that allowed an 80-kilometer slick of toxic benzene to reach this northern city of almost four million people on a river that normally supplies it with running water. In this increasingly unwashed and unflushed city, residents continued […]
Read MoreParts of China will face an energy shortage this winter, according to a report in AP. Last month, China Daily reported that nine provinces may face power blackouts this winter. The privatization of housing has contributed to the country’s energy woes: “State employers used to supply winter heating to company-issued housing for free. But now […]
Read MoreChinese authorities have reportedly arrested more than 100 Tibetan Buddhist monks and other residents of largely Tibetan Dege County in Sichuan Province, following protests against a vast dam project that would destroy six...
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The 6th Plenum of the 18th Party Central Committee concluded on Thursday. After four days of...
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According to state television broadcaster CCTV, hundreds of students at Changzhou Foreign...
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