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Today's Links: E-waste, socialist engineering and the capitalist fight against pollution?


  • China chokes on e-waste

    Guiyu is a modern day gold rush town. But instead of panning for gold in babbling streams, workers shift through piles of broken old computer parts in acrid smelling shacks, smelting down parts with crude equipment to extract valuable metals.



  • Giant pandas 'expanding habitat' in China

    Researchers in China say they have seen encouraging signs of an increase in giant panda numbers in the country's largest panda reserve.



  • As concerns over quality mount, China faces obstacles

    Wang Wenlong knew he wasn't going to get top quality when he plunked down $4,700 for a locally made car. But he didn't expect so many problems from his Xiali subcompact -- from windows that refused to open to windshield wipers that wouldn't wipe.



  • China awaits environ study before upgrading road to Everest-China-World-The Times of India

    Responding to global concerns, including that from India, China has decided to seek an environmental study on its controversial plan to upgrade an existing road to Nepal and Mt Everest in the fragile Himalayan region of Tibet.



  • China moves to change damaged global image

    After years of being accused by Western nations of making only token gestures to fight fake goods and months of complaints about the safety of its exports, China is taking extraordinary steps to change its image.



  • Tibet is remade by hand of Chinese government

    In a massive campaign that recalls the socialist engineering of an earlier era, the Chinese government has relocated 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new "socialist villages,".


  • The capitalist fight against pollution?
    The State Environmental Protection Administration is working with the banking authorities to identify companies that fail pollution checks or bypass environmental assessments for new projects and to restrict their access to fresh credit.


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    By Kenneth Tan in on July 31, 2007 2:21 PM

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    Today's Links: Reporter hostages, Chinese rockets and Made-in-China fears

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    By Kenneth Tan in on June 24, 2007 2:11 PM

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    Today's Links: Jaywalking, smoking and cheap domains


  • Tech Flocks To Shanghai

    "According to a report from Russell Reynolds Associates based on Shanghai government statistics, 144 foreign companies now have their Asia-Pacific headquarters in Shanghai, 48 of which established operations there only in the last year."



  • City traffic police tougher on jaywalking

    "Besides receiving a verbal reminder of the violation, jaywalkers and cyclists will be fined between five yuan to 50 yuan, depending on their behavior and attitude."



  • Shanghai Surprise

    "If you thought the Shanghai index's 8.8% drop in late February was bad, wait until a bunch of rickety Chinese companies collapse."



  • Shanghai's Boutique Hotels And Couture Alleys

    "This Sunday, Yang checks in and checks out a number of Shanghai boutique hotels. How do we know this? We're the suckers who subscribe to Times Select."



  • More pollution control in China

    "The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA), China’s environment watchdog, will spend 2 billion yuan (US$250 million) to set up new pollution statistics, monitoring and accountability systems within 18 months."



  • Chinese Domain Name Registration Fees Drop To Almost Free

    "[T]he State Council Informatization Office, Information Office of the State Council and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Internet Network Information Center has announced that all .CN domains can now be purchased for only one yuan."



  • Google, Baidu race to set up online library in China

    "Web search leader Google and its top rival in China Baidu.com are racing to build out their online library services as they battle for a slice of the world's second-largest Internet market."



  • Smoking ban threatens China

    "Smoking harms people's health, but restraining smoking threatens social stability," said Zhang Baozhen, deputy chief of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. "Smokers rioted when the former Soviet Union collapsed because they could not get any cigarettes. ... The principle applies in China as well."



  • Major Music Companies Sue Yahoo! China

    "Led by industry group the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the corporations, including EMI, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music, and Universal Music, are suing Yahoo! China for an estimated 5.5 million yuan in damages."



  • China's Dog Extermination Plan Condemned

    "The Humane Society of the United States/Humane Society International said in a statement that a vaccination campaign would be a better way to control rabies."



  • China axes foreigners’ tax breaks

    "China ended almost 30 years of favourable treatment for foreign companies on Thursday with the introduction of a measure to equalise corporate tax rates paid by local and overseas enterprises."



  • How To Get Free Product From China: Just Don't Pay

    "There are countless stories out there (including in this blog) of foreign companies sending money off to China for product that never comes. This article is essentially the reverse: Chinese companies shipping product overseas and then never getting paid."



  • Tibetan exiles to protest Chinese rule via 'net video, March 10

    "Videos already uploaded include pilgrims, rap songs, statements from monks, rants from young Tibetan exiles in the United States, and words from ama-la (grandmas). Looks like the revolution(s) will be televised after all."



  • A slow-boiled frog

    "Taiwan may rejoin China peacefully within 20 years"



  • McKinsey Survey on China

    "An interesting survey just out from McKinsey on how executives in Asia perceive the China market. I'm amazed that only 30 per cent of the respondents' companies have operations in China."



  • Letter From China: In Asia, the past divides and alienates

    "Imagine a world where Germany denied the Holocaust, the United States denied the slaughter of Native Americans and Europe denied organizing its immensely profitable and centuries-long trans-Atlantic trade in African slaves."



  • China cracks down on 'virtual money'

    "Regulators have ordered Chinese websites to limit the use of 'virtual money' after concerns that the online credits might be used for money laundering or illicit trade."



  • Shanghai leads in female cancer

    "The cancer rate among Shanghai's women almost doubled in the past 20 years and is the highest in the nation, health officials said yesterday."


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    By Dan Washburn in on March 10, 2007 1:23 AM

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    We swear, we're not trying to ruin your weekend

    Shanghaiist keeps following these stories on rabies that keep popping up around the country. Slaughters are happening in places like Nanjing, and now stories about dog bites and rabies cases in Shanghai and Beijing. Our paranoid mind can't help but wonder if the state media is planting seeds of warning.

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    By Bliss Khaw in , on August 25, 2006 2:38 PM

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    Pearl River: 'Neither black nor stinky'

    But taking a dip into a major, disgustingly-polluted body of water is exactly what the governor of Guangdong Province and the mayor of Guangzhou did ... along with 3,500 other loyal citizens. Why? To prove that the Pearl River is now "neither black nor stinky" -- in certain sections -- after 30 years of being completely offensive:

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    By Bliss Khaw in , on July 14, 2006 11:19 AM

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    Bad news for Bohai

    Without question, the major drawback of China's rapid economic growth has been the tremendous negative impact on the environment. Now officials at the Ministry of Agriculture and the State Environmental Protection Administration say that the Bohai sea--China's largest internal sea--has reached a tipping point. If measures are not taken to curb the dumping of pollutants into the sea from its tributary rivers, officials warn, the Bohai sea will be "dead" in as little as 12 years.

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    By Jeff Jorve in , on March 10, 2006 4:25 PM

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    Technology for a better world

    People who read Shanghaiist's posts on a regular basis must by now have a pretty good sense of the tongue-in-cheek manner in which most subject matter is approached. Every once in a blue moon, something will come along that is so immediately affecting and amazing that our usual sarcasm-laced tone just seems petty and small-minded. The LifeStraw is one of those things.

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    By Jeff Jorve in , on August 19, 2005 12:07 PM

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