The number of rivers in China with catchment areas of at least 100 square kilometres has dropped by more than 50 per cent compared with 60 years ago, a landmark survey on national water resources...
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26 Mar 2013
In the past two weeks, more than 16,000 dead pigs have been fished out of the Huangpu River, near Shanghai, and its tributaries. Outraged Chinese citizens have decried government negligence of the...
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22 Mar 2013
President Xi Jinping visits Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin. In advance of his trip, Xi called Russia "our friendly neighbour", adding that his visit underscored the "great...
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22 Mar 2013
The water from the Dongjiang sustains more than 40 million people in the cities of Heyuan, Huizhou, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong. There is no reason why a sustainable water policy...
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Australia wants to help the Chinese government turn its water into cash, and join forces with Beijing to find million-year-old ice in Antarctica, says Tony Burke, the country's environment...
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12 Sep 2012
A big, golden, pyramid-shaped building stands out in an industrial zone on the remote northeastern border of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region.
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Collusion with tycoons keeps prices high
There is a great deal of public concern over high property prices and soaring rents in Hong Kong.
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The health of China's second-longest river is worsening, with 60 per cent of the Yellow River's water now unfit to drink. The rate of its deterioration is alarming, an expert said yesterday.
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The transcript of Premier Wen Jiabao's speech on Sunday to the National People's Congress reveals much about the central government's priorities - and some glaring oversights.
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Work has started on a project to move water from Shanxi province to Beijing in an effort to quench the thirst of a city struggling through its fifth year of drought.
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I refer to the articles headlined, 'Village battles for safe water' and 'Tests find contaminated water on tap' which were published in the Sunday Morning Post on March 7 and 21 respectively.
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HONG KONG students have the chance to win attractive prizes including round-trip air tickets in an essay writing competition to promote World Water Day.
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