(February 16, 2012) An earthquake that shook Hong Kong early this morning was triggered by the Xinfengjiang dam on China’s mainland, say officials from the Guangdong Provincial Seismological Bureau.
(February 1, 2012) China’s cyber citizens, or ‘netizens’ as they are known, are forcing their government to come clean-er on air pollution.
(January 23, 2012) In this instalment of Weibo Watch: grassroots social activism takes off. Socially innovative schemes that encourage citizens to, for example, carry supplies to needy areas when they pass through, are blooming thanks to microblogs. Meanwhile, more and more netizens in different cities are taking action to monitor air quality levels for themselves, following the shocking accusation that Beijing’s Environmental Protection Bureau had stopped collecting data from two of its monitoring sites years ago because the data revealed damning pollution levels.
(January 13, 2012) In the Year of the Dragon, China will invest more than 64 billion yuan ($10.13 billion) in the South-North Water Diversion project to divert water to the country’s arid northern regions, pushing the total investment in the controversial scheme over the 200 billion yuan mark (more than $30 billion).
(January 12, 2012) The first of many trials to come involving carbon-trading tax frauds lands one group in jail, with an order to pay the French state a total of 43 million euros.
(January 6, 2012) The Xiaonanhai hydro project, slated for the Yangtze River, poses a threat to China’s most precious wild fish and the supremacy of the law, say Chinese environmentalists and scientists.
