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China Targets Unsafe Tap Water
Beijing (AFP) Jul 10, 2007China adopted a new standard Sunday for tap water quality to better protect its population against a series of hidden dangers, state media said. "In some of China's cities, water supply has been contaminated and residents are threatened with unsafe water," Zhang Chengyu, an official with the Ministry of Health, told the Xinhua news agency. The current standard, issued in 1985, is outdated ... more As China Overtakes US As Global Polluter Opportunities Abound For Newer, Cleaner Plants 
New York NY (SPX) Jul 10, 2007China will become the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter in one year, exceeding the emissions of the U.S. However, China also presents the most investment opportunities for manufacturing products based on new clean technologies, putting the country on both sides of the environmental challenge. These points and many others were discussed by a blue-chip panel of cleantech leaders during the Lu ... more China Launches Thales-built Chinasat 6B Telecommunication Satellite 
Beijing (SPX) Jul 09, 2007The Chinasat 6B telecommunication satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor, was successfully boosted into orbit on Thursday July 5, from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province by a Long March 3B rocket. Chinasat 6B will enable ChinaSatcom to offer communication and broadcast capabilities to the Chinese market. Based on the Thales Alenia ... more Chinese Mayor Urges Residents To Stop Buying Cars 
Beijing (AFP) Jul 06, 2007The mayor of one of China's showpiece economic cities has urged his 11 million residents to stop buying cars in a bid to ease worsening traffic and pollution woes, state media reported Friday. The booming southern city of Shenzhen, just across from the border from Hong Kong, now has more than one million cars, with 90,000 new cars registered already this year, the English-language China Daily re ... more Hot Economy Means China May Miss Energy Efficiency Targets 
Beijing (AFP) Jul 05, 2007China may not achieve its much-trumpeted five-year goal on improving energy efficiency due to runaway economic growth, the nation's top planning officials said in comments published Thursday. "The trend of overheated economic development has not been contained," the Beijing News quoted Ma Kai, China's top economic planner, as telling a government panel on energy efficiency on Wednesday. Ma ... more |
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Hong Kong (AFP) June 30, 2007Discarded cigarette packets, McDonald's wrappers and even old socks litter the shores of Lau Fau Shan in Hong Kong's far north, home to what remains of the territory's oyster farming industry. From across the border in China, factories belch smoke into the fetid air over Deep Bay, one of Hong Kong's most polluted stretches of water. Ten years after the territory was handed back to the Chin ... more China To Force Polluters To Pay More 
Beijing (AFP) June 27, 2007China is set to double fees that companies must pay for pollution amid concerns that efforts to clean up the environment are not working well enough, state press said Wednesday. The move is aimed at forcing companies who do not care for the environment to improve their pollution habits through cost pressures, the China Daily said, citing National Development and Reform Commission vice minister B ... more Russia Ratifies Deals On ITER Research Reactor 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 28, 2007Russia's lower house of parliament ratified Wednesday two agreements regulating the ITER project, an experimental reactor in France being built with Russia's involvement, aimed at eventually generating power by nuclear fusion. Under the document now ratified by the State Duma, which was first signed in Paris on November 21, 2006, Russia, South Korea, China, Japan, India, the European Union and t ... more Japan And China Struggle To Resolve Gas Dispute 
Tokyo (AFP) Jun 26, 2007Japan and China on Tuesday failed to break the deadlock in a longstanding dispute over drilling rights in the energy-rich East China Sea in their latest round of talks, officials said. The Asian rivals' one-day meeting in Tokyo, the ninth round of talks since the dialogue began in 2004, ended without tangible results and with no fresh formal proposals from either side, Japanese officials said. more |
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Washington DC (UPI) Jun 23, 2007China's growing interest in Africa should not be seen as a threat, but rather as a major boost for international efforts to raise living standards on the continent. Yet there are also growing concerns that Chinese financial aid to struggling African nations may lower standards for environmental protection and human rights. With its seemingly insatiable appetite for oil and other natural re ... more Western China Sweltering Under Record Temperatures 
Beijing (AFP) June 24, 2007Westernmost China's Xinjiang region was under a blistering heatwave Sunday, with the mercury hitting as high as 44.8 degrees Celsius (112.6 degrees Fahrenheit) in Turpan city, a local official said. Turpan is usually regarded as the hottest place in China, but in June temperatures normally average about 31 degrees Celsius, a meteorologist at the Urumqi meteorological bureau said of the desert re ... more Billionaire Hopes To Move Entire Plant From Brazil To China 
Chongqing, China (AFP) Jun 24, 2007Buy a factory in Brazil and move it to China. It is a plan that is as simple as it is sweeping in its sheer scale and ambition, and if anyone can do it, it must be Chinese billionaire Yin Mingshan -- assuming, that is, the Brazilian government will let him. "Brazil has told us we can buy the factory, but only if we agree not to move it," said 69-year-old Yin, the founder and chairman of Chongqin ... more China Hits Back On Climate Change After Being Tagged Top Culprit 
Beijing (AFP) June 21, 2007China on Thursday accused the developed world of hypocrisy on climate change as it defended itself against a report that said it had passed the United States as the world's top emitter of carbon dioxide. A Dutch government research body said Tuesday that China's carbon dioxide emissions -- the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming -- surpassed those of the United States by eight per ... more
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