Widely panned, loos in China get clean-up
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In the panoply of human rights, it isn&#39;t the first to trip off the tongue. But more than 150 delegates at an international conference yesterday urged that it should be.
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China mulls new measures in environmental protection    BEIJING, Feb.
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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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Nearly a fifth of the food and consumer products checked in a nationwide survey in China this year were found to be substandard or tainted.
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By Frank Munger, The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Tenn.  Jun. 4--OAK RIDGE -- The cleanup apparently is working.
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Many endangered species are under threat from growing prosperity in China, where exotic animals are butchered for gourmet banquets, exotic medicines or luxury goods.
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In a generation, a rough-and-tumble form of capitalism is eclipsing the remnants of socialism in China.
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Declaring war on the "white pollution" choking its cities, farms and waterways, China is banning free plastic shopping bags and calling for a return to the cloth bags of old Â steps largely welcomed by merchants and shoppers on Wednesday.
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Chinese efforts to restock a polluted northern river with fish ran into problems when more than 1,000 residents started hauling them out almost as soon as they were put in, state media said on Thursday.
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A senior Chinese official tells the BBC the country's environmental problems have reached crisis levels.
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BEIJING, Oct. 29 -- China said Monday that it had arrested 774 people in a crackdown on substandard goods, part of its efforts to calm international worries over the quality of the country's products.
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A Chinese government report has found that nearly 20% of products made in the country are below standard.
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People gather at the gate of No2 Senior Middle School in Ruzhou, near Pingdingshan, in China&#39;s central Henan province. Photograph: Xinhua/Zhu/Reuters.
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Residents in south-western China begin cleaning up after floods and landslides left 172 people dead.
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Each year the West showers the Southeast Asian country with more aid, hoping it will clean up its act. But China isn't making it easy
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While developing nations China, Brazil and India grow at break-neck pace with their burgeoning industry and farming, industrialized countries want them to clean up the dirty practices that have made them some of the world's biggest polluters.
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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.