Beijing drivers ignore No Car Day
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China holds No Car Day to reduce pollution, but impact seems minimal, at least in the capital.
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Driving in Moscow has become a ritual devoid of meaning, a slow parade of new cars -- Audis, BMWs and the occasional banana-colored Hummer mingling with the ubiquitous Ladas on the choked 12-lane streets.
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Beijing, in solidarity with millions of people facing the Lunar New Year without power, will turn off thousands of "holiday lights" lining the capital's main streets each night an hour earlier than usual.
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Hong Kong&#39;s Beijing-backed chief executive yesterday ruled out any early moves to pass a controversial national security law which last year sparked a street protest by half a million people.
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Fearing civil unrest should the actual number of premature deaths from pollution be published, Beijing persuades the World Bank to omit the figures from a report, the Financial Times says.
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Hundreds of European cities and towns restricted auto traffic Wednesday, part of the continent's annual campaign to lower air pollution by encouraging commuters to use public transportation, bicycles or their ...
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Tourists seeking their own Olympian challenge while attending the Beijing Games this August might be tempted to get behind the wheel of a rental car and take a spin on the roads of the Chinese capital.
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NEW YORK - Several Brooklyn residents woke up to find their street empty - because someone had posted a No Parking sign and police had towed their rides.  The sign, which bans parking on a street in the DUMBO neighborhood from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Beijing determined to clean up all polluted rivers, lakes by 2010  BEIJING, Dec.14 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese national capital will endeavor to make all rivers and lakes within the sixth ring road of the city free of pollution by the year 2010.
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Chinese government workers are told not to use air-conditioning below 26C, as part of an energy efficiency drive.
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Britons passion for motoring shows no sign of cooling despite some of the tightest road restrictions in the world.
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Analysis: Beijing's extensive economic interest in Burma doesn't provide leverage to change the regime's behavior, but it does give China an incentive to resist sanctions. And Beijing has shown little tolerance for  mass protest on its own soil
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BEIJING, Jan. 10 -- China on Thursday rejected any connection between humanitarian concerns in Darfur and the upcoming Beijing Olympics, saying attempts to link them come from people unwilling to view China's role objectively in that embattled region of Sudan.
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Enthusing about the Beijing Olympics won't endear you to the ordinary folk of China's rural provinces. And their disdain speaks to a wider problem facing the central government
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TONGREN, China  - Millions of Chinese began the biggest holiday of the year without power on Wednesday after more than a week of fierce winter weather, but tens of thousands of stranded passengers had finally found trains, buses and planes to get home for family reunions.
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Drivers in NI are still ignoring speed limits and warnings about drinking and driving, police say.
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An advertisement on Beijing's subway proclaiming "Squeezed in?! Go and buy a car then!" has angered passengers who said it only encourages traffic jams, a state newspaper said on Friday.