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From Public Radio International's program The World: China, the world's largest nation with one of the fastest growing economies, has a world-class pollution problem. In a four-part series, correspondent Mary Kay Magistad examines China's growing environmental crisis and what the country is doing to respond.
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Probably from the beginnings of the Cold War to its end, millions of people in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe listened to the USIA´s radio flagship, the Voice of America (VoA). At least when compared to what people under direct or indirect Soviet rule...

"So far, the world has heard from the young man and the cameraman in the famous Bus Uncle episode. But who cares about them? The world wants to know about the Bus Uncle himself.

But I never expected that he can be so bad. He can be so ignorant of history that in a radio program, he cited China’s Cultural Revolution as an extreme case of democracy, while Cultural Revolution is in fact a good example of how dictatorship can destroy a whole country.

China Radio International clearly thinks so.

990AM in Shanghai broadcast where someone criticized Shanghainese people for speaking their native Shanghai dialect in public areas to show their superiority.

On the last working day of 2007, China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) and the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) jointly issued the Administrative Provision on Internet Audio-Visual Program Services. According to the Provision, online video business operators have to obtain programming permits from the authority or perform required procedures. Companies applying for internet audio-visual service permits must be "legal persons, fully state-owned or state ownership-controlled, with no law breaching records in the prior three years".

Animals, drinks, radio equipment, and banners and oversized flags will also be prohibited…

What’s to say? August in Beijing: a seething cauldron of humidity and trace elements and no water to wash it all down with. Lunacy. Total fucking lunacy.

In this episode, Sufei takes a trip back to 1930s Shanghai, when her psychoanalyst father shows up for a visit. Sufei's father and his family fled Nazi Germany when he was a baby, so he spent the first few years of his life in China. Together, Sufei and her father return to Shanghai in search of his childhood home.