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www.theglobeandmail.com — Pollution costs China, the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, hundreds of millions – perhaps billions – of yuan annually. It also threatens the ability of the world’s second-largest economy to evolve into a fully developed, first world country from its current industrializing state

seeingredinchina.com — The other day I was discussing infectious diseases with a group of doctors. The question was relatively simple, "How do diseases spread?" They quickly offered: through coughing, sharing chopsticks, touching, mother to infant, and even mosquitoes.

www.chinadaily.com.cn — Chen Dejun, 71, lives by himself in shabby thatched cottage on a hill in Shuijiang township, Nanchuan district of southwest China's Chongqing municipality. The short and bony man said he drinks 3 to 3.5 kilograms of gasoline every month, which he buys from a station at the foot of the hill.

www.chinadialogue.net — In the middle ground between booming cities and rural villages, rubbish is causing friction. Yang Chuanmin visits a Shanghai family, who blame a plastics-recycling centre for the death of their child.

www.ministryoftofu.com — Yu Jianrong, a famous human rights activist and sociologist, who campaigned against abducted children exploited as beggars earlier this year, made another appeal on April 15 to microblog users: Take pictures of faulty footpaths for the blind and upload them to a public page.