China's demand for oil jumped by an 'astonishing' 28% in January compared with the same month a year earlier, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says.
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These two men were charged with murder by stoning and yet this case will receive very little media interest. Their story, however, highlights just how serious Xinjiang is in preserving a different set of its minorities.
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Get this: from the one-day summit about the Jing's CBD just a few days ago, those taking part wanted Beijing to build its own Empire State Building. But then again, they did not want New York with Chinese Characteristics. Nor were they interested ...
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From The Guardian Environment: 'Farmers' fields are a bigger source of water contamination in China than factory effluent, the Chinese government revealed today in its first census on pollution...The release of the groundbreaking report was reportedly delayed by resistance from the agriculture ministry, which had previously insisted that farms contributed only a tiny fraction of pollution in China
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It's the Year of the Tiger, and the first baby Siberian tiger found in the wild for over 20 years, dies in captivity. The usual questions apply: was it really wild? how did it die? has there been a cover-up?
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A description of a Guilin Tiger farm, where the animals are bred to create various black market culinary delicacies. Like Japan drives whale extinction, so China does for tigers. This is NOT just China bashing either, hence I am putting up another version of the story that wdbox put up earlier which got voted down. It's quite a sad sight.
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Everyone knows that red on the Air Quality Index means 'bad' but don't you sometimes wish that you were a bit more informed on how to read into the numbers. This post tells you how.
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Fewer than 50 wild tigers remain in China, a conservation group said as it voiced hope that the Year of the Tiger will not be the last for the endangered cats.
Xie Yan, director of the China programme for the US-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that just 20 years ago tigers still roamed across large swathes of China.
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Announcements were made recently that Chengdu will pilot a free, short-term bicycle-rental program in its southern new area. Concrete details for the program's implementation are to be released as early as next week.
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Alex Hofford, Hong Kong based photographer, gives a nice selection of photos and a photo essays of trash on a Hong Kong beach. He rummages through the rubble to produce a bundle of items ranging from old stuffed animals to a severed porpoise head.
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Recently this music video named “The whole world is laughing at China being stupid” (全世界都在笑中国傻) has been circulating on the Chinese internet. Initially this music video was “officially approved” by the Chinese government, however netizens strongly reacted to the bitter sarcasm of the lyrics which associated with China’s current situation.
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Men and women in Guangdong commute wearing less than usual in an attempt to raise awareness of sustainable living...
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Tang Hao wrote in 'The China Dialogue': 'The failure of companies to report environmental pollution in China exposes challenges for governments in the developed and the developing world... Overseas investment in China by developed countries has largely been in polluting sectors. This is no accident, but a deliberate strategy.'
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Bi ying ying has become an epidemic. This post is about the meaning of bi ying ying, how it came to be, and why it will be staying in China for awhile.
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From enoVate: 'There’s a point when a trend turns into a movement and movement turns into a way of life. In regards to the advancement of bike culture in major Chinese cities, a movement has begun. The influx of foreign and local led biking efforts across major Chinese cities is propelling... the bike culture movement forward into 2010 and beyond.'
read more »From the 'China Comment' site: 'China needs and must use coal to satisfy its energy demands; at least in the near term. In fact, the entire World needs to use coal until more energy is produced using nuclear, hydro and wind…it might be interesting to compare America and China’s Coal use and to determine what is being done to mitigate China’s coal demand...'
read more »A diesel spill has contaminated a stretch of the Yellow River, officials said on Monday, despite frantic efforts to contain its spread into China's second largest waterway that provides drinking water to tens of millions of northern residents.
read more »This article from the New York Times has some interesting translations of how China is self-promoting itself and Wen Jiabao as the"hero" of the Copenhagen Climate Talks. Xinhua's account differs somewhat from stories in the Western press.
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Mark Lynas, fly-on-the-wall, blames China for the failure of the deal at Copenhagen.
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Barack Obama and Chinese premier Wen Jiabao have made some progress in reaching a climate change deal, White House officials said shortly after the U.S. president used a speech to emphasize that a deal hung “in the balance.”
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