Hong Kong choked by growing pollution problem
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Discarded cigarette packets, McDonald&#39;s wrappers and even old socks litter the shores of Lau Fau Shan in Hong Kong&#39;s far north, home to what remains of the territory&#39;s oyster farming industry.
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Chinese authorities are battling to clean up after one of the worst oil spills in the region's waters.
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Hong Kong's bad air may be  responsible for a significant jump in children being admitted  to hospital for asthma, a six-year study has found.
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Underground water reserves in around 9 out of every 10 Chinese cities are polluted or over-exploited, and could take hundreds of years to recover, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.
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Long-held silence over the taboo subject of toilets is taking its toll on global health and holding back developing countries, hygiene experts warned at a world toilet summit here.
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China mulls new measures in environmental protection    BEIJING, Feb.
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ATHENS -- Since the Greek capital's only landfill reached saturation a month ago, Athens has been in the grip of a garbage crisis.
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NEW YORK  - A smog-filled sky can make it hard to breathe, but air pollution in the home may also be hard on people with lung disease, researchers have found.
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LINFEN, China _ Here in one of the world's most polluted cities, where coal dust blackens apples still on the branch, something new is in the air.  It's not the brown smoke chugging out of coke plants and iron smelters day and night. The stranger is talk of an ultimatum.
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China is the biggest producer and exporter of seafood in the world, but contaminated water has created serious food safety and environmental problems.
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Visibility plunged to 50 metres in parts of Borneo island on Saturday and Singapore recorded its highest pollution reading in nearly a decade as fires in Indonesia sent acrid smoke across Southeast Asia.
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A decade and a half after Thailand began a battle for better air quality, this erstwhile icon of smog has emerged as a role model for pollution-choked capitals in Asia.
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HONG KONG : China has created a &quot;toxic political climate&quot; in Hong Kong through threats and intimidation designed to skew Sunday&#39;s elections in favour of pro-Beijing candidates, a global rights watchdog said.
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A senior Chinese official tells the BBC the country's environmental problems have reached crisis levels.
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A new report says that pressures on fuel supplies are growing, in part, because booming Asian economies are using more fuel to power their manufacturing industries.
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As urbanites with rising incomes are demanding better air and water, the countryside is increasingly becoming a dumping ground.
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Air pollution is killing more than half a million people in Asian cities each year and shows no sign of improving as urban centers expand, studies by the Asian Development Bank show.