Rules Ignored, Toxic Sludge Sinks Chinese Village
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The destruction of the tiny village of Sugai is a lesson in the difficulty of enforcing environmental rules in China.
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Factory managers detained over toxic river spill in central China county    CHANGSHA, Sept.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Enterprises Violating Environmental Protection Rules in China Will Struggle To Get Bank Loans" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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Residents in Dunmurry who say they are plagued by the smell of sewage call for a ban on development.
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A Chinese city planned to censor online  chatroom exchanges and ban anonymous postings after residents  used the Internet to organize a mass protest against a chemical  plant, Chinese media reported on Friday.
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RANCHO BERNARDO, Calif., Oct. 24 -- Strange things happened on Cloudesly Drive. Houses simply disappeared. At one address, there is a swimming pool, transformed into a black lagoon. There is a metal lump, still warm to the touch, that appears to have been the dishwasher. What else? A pile of charred...
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By Chris Bowman, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Feb. 27--Rancho Murieta's failure to expand its sewage treatment capacity to keep up with growth has brought a state fine of $200,000 against the eastern Sacramento County golf course community.
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China says 312 million villagers face water shortages or use water contaminated by fluorine, arsenic and organic or industrial pollutants.
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Residents in south-western China begin cleaning up after floods and landslides left 172 people dead.
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By Zheng Lifei and Zhang Kun  SHANGHAI: Five officials have been punished for their failure to stop companies from discharging untreated sewage into Taihu Lake, where a massive algae outbreak left the people of Wuxi without tap water for a week earlier this month.
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No one lives here anymore. Only radiation-danger signs stick up from the ground in this village contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl accident, and abandoned buildings gape silently, their windows broken.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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By Daniel Witter, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Feb. 13--Up to 50,000 gallons of untreated sewage spilled out of a holding pond at a Yuba County foothills subdivision over the weekend, prompting county officials on Monday to warn downhill residents to test their water.
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Chinaâs pollution problem, like the speed and scale of its rise as an economic power, has shattered all precedents.
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By Li Fangchao  Experts and the public have expressed strong concern over the possible environmental impact of the construction of a massive chemical plant in Xiamen, East China's Fujian Province, Outlook Weekly reported yesterday.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand  - As a clean up operation  finally gets into gear in this devastated Thai fishing village,  some of the survivors complain that the authorities gave  priority to foreign tourists rather than them.
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XIAMEN: This port city in East China's Fujian Province has decided to put a highly polluting chemical project on hold, authorities said yesterday.