Revamped environmental law raises hopes for cleanup in China
March 14, 2015 | The Associated Press | BEIJING – People in China who want to take industries to task for fouling their surroundings have been rushing to file complaints and lawsuits this year in a test of legal reforms that toughen environmental penalties. more…
China readies national carbon market to fight climate change
May 24, 2015 | The Associated Press | BEIJING – At first, the numbers and company names flashing on a big board in Beijing’s financial district suggest a booming market. A closer look indicates otherwise: The scrolling list rotates the same dozen or so trades, all from last year. more…
Coal gas boom in China holds major climate change risk
August 22, 2014 | The Associated Press | HEXINGTEN, China — Deep in the hilly grasslands of remote Inner Mongolia, twin smoke stacks rise more than 200 feet into the sky, their steam and sulfur billowing over herds of sheep and cattle. more…
China’s startups hope for boom after Alibaba IPO
June 11, 2014 | The Associated Press | BEIJING – China might seem an odd choice for young tech entrepreneurs. Instead of innovation and risk taking, the country is more associated with state domination of the economy, rampant intellectual property theft and heavy duty government censorship of social media. more…
Secret historians preserve past in China amid state amnesia
March 11, 2015 | The Associated Press | BEIJING – Xu Xing and other secret historians have taken it upon themselves to preserve photos, interview eyewitnesses and do the archival work that the Chinese government has banned most historians inside the country from doing. more…
A lonely, agonizing search for missing kids in China
December 27, 2014 | The Associated Press | BEIJING – Zhang Xiuhong and her husband have since searched all over China for Yao Li, hoping to rescue her from a child trafficking industry that swallows up thousands of boys and girls every year. Along the way, the couple have also been harassed, arrested and jailed […] more…
Chinese art colony’s free-speech illusion shatters.
October 17, 2014 | The Associated Pres | BEIJING – In a tightly controlled society where dissent is quickly squashed, the artists of Songzhuang appeared to be enjoying a rarely seen degree of creative and political freedom. But then, on Oct. 1, that illusion was shattered. more…
Hong Kong at a crossroads
July 26, 2014 | The Associated Press | HONG KONG — As skyscrapers around Hong Kong harbor erupted into a reverie of laser beams and giant digital displays during their synchronized nightly light show, one innocuous 28-story building near the water’s edge had stayed dark for months, clad in bamboo scaffolding for a face-lift. more…
China’s carbon goal a tough sell in coal country
December 2, 2014 | The Associated Press | TANG COUNTY, China – Just a few dozen miles from the capital of Beijing, in Hebei province, coal use has long been a way of life, with countless house-sized mounds of it dotting the forest floor. more…
China plays by its own rules while going global
February 16, 2013 | The Associated Press | MEXICO CITY — All over the world, from Latin America to the South Pacific, a cash-flush China is funding projects that others won’t, seemingly less concerned by the conventional wisdom of credit ratings and institutions such as the World Bank. more…
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