At least 16 people have died and another 57 were injured after a series of explosions in a chemical plant on Tuesday, AP reported, citing state media. The first explosion occurred at about 6 a.m. in the city of Yizhou in the Guangxi region and the blasts continued until 1 p.m. The government evacuated 11,500 […]
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Chinese President Hu Jintao and Korean President Lee Myung-bak agreed to expand efforts to cooperate on political, economic and other issues at a summit in Seoul on Monday, AP reported. Hu also called for "full implementation" of the second phase of the denuclearization process on the Korean peninsula, and agreed to high-level strategic talks with […]
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Mao successor dies at 87
Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as Mao Zedong’s successor, died Wednesday of an unspecified illness at the age of 87, AP reported, citing state media. Hua took power after Mao’s death in September 1976 but was pushed aside two years later by Deng Xiaoping as a prelude to reforms. Hua was forced out as […]
Beijing’s environmental protection bureau said the city’s air quality has seen its best levels in 10 years this month after the government halted production at factories and took vehicles off the roads for the Olympics, Bloomberg reported. The city has had 18 "full-compliance" days, including nine grade-one days in August, Du Shaozhong, deputy director of […]
Tim Wu at Slate argues, persuasively in my opinion, that Western coverage of the Olympics has focused on the "two Ps" – pollution and protests – to an extent out of proportion to their significance, and displayed a more negative slant than it might in other countries: So are the media just being a little […]