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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China has disciplined officials for a chemical leak that contaminated a river and cut off drinking water and pledged action against those responsible for two other environmental disasters, state media reported on Wednesday.
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By Xin Dingding  Experts have urged the government to strengthen efforts to deal with water pollution in the wake of the Wuxi water crisis.  The Wuxi government has stressed that the incident was "an irresistible natural disaster".
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China's broadcast watchdog has slammed a provincial station for ignoring an order to remove sexually explicit television programs from the air, and demanded better "spiritual food" for viewers.
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China pledges to dispose key polluters    BEIJING, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- China's top environmental watchdog launched investigations into six of the country's most notorious polluters on Friday, with last week's chemical spill on a tributary to the Songhua River on the list.
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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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A landslide destroyed 25 village houses in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou on Friday and 65 villagers, asleep at the time, were missing, Xinhua news agency said.
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Illegal local government construction destroying China's forests   BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's State Forestry Administration (SFA) has blasted local authorities and private companies for flaunting the law by chopping down forests to make way for new transport links.
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About 60 percent of Chinese cities still suffer from air pollution and have no centralized sewage treatment facilities, according to a report by the State environment watchdog.
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_ State health officials said Monday that the city was in violation of federal drinking water rules for the past six years by supplying incomplete results from its annual lead tests.
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By Audra Ang Associated Press  BEIJING - Fast-spreading, foul-smelling blue-green algae smothered a lake in eastern China, contaminating the drinking water for millions of people and sparking panic-buying of bottled water, state media said Thursday.
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The beating death of a passer-by who filmed a streetside fracas between villagers and authorities touched off protests in central China, in the latest incident to underscore public anger over abusive treatment by government employees.
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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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Silting in Three Gorges Reservoir less serious than anticipated: official    YICHANG, Hubei Province, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Silting in the Three Gorges Project has proved to be less of a problem than anticipated, according to a project official.
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By AUDRA ANG  BEIJING - Hundreds of people in northwestern China have been hospitalized with lead poisoning that was likely caused by pollution from a nearby smelter, state media and local officials said Wednesday.
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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...