HK feels pressure over pollution
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A pressure group is formed to urge Hong Kong's government to act on air quality amid warnings over costs to the economy.
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A vast cloud of pollution has descended on Cairo once more, creating health problems and challenging authorities as they seek ways to stop it coming back.
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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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By Dina Cappiello, Houston Chronicle  Mar. 10--In a move that would stymie Mayor Bill White's plans to clean up Houston's air, two state lawmakers have filed legislation that would prohibit local governments from regulating pollution coming from outside their boundaries.
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Heavy air pollution in Beijing has prompted warnings to residents to stay inside and forced the cancellation of two air shows that were to coincide with French President Jacques Chirac - s visit to China.
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Los Angeles and Pittsburgh provide examples of what to do &#151; and not to do &#151; about China's severe air pollution in the face of surging energy use from rapid economic growth, U.S. and Chinese scientists say.
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The streets in Hong Kong have become even more crowded since the territory was handed over to the People&#39;s Republic of China in 1997 after being ruled by Great Britain for more than 150 years.
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Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang said Thursday he will seek another term &#151; a five-year period that will likely bring growing pressure for full democracy and cleaner air in the Chinese territory.
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A senior Chinese official tells the BBC the country's environmental problems have reached crisis levels.
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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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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Official Urges Legislature To Hold Governments Accountable for Pollution" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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Automakers, SUV owners, and the federal government may balk at the state's latest effort to curb air pollution.
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Pollution standards are too weak to protect people from the air they breathe, the EPA's chief declared Thursday. He recommended tougher limits on the smog that makes children cough and asthmatics wheeze from Los Angeles to Houston to New York.
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Soaring oil prices are forcing many Hong Kong fishermen to stay ashore, and some say they may have to give up a business that has been all their families have known for generations.
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HONG KONG China stirred worries that it will take tighter control over Hong Kong by saying on Thursday it must find ways to improve local governance and deal with a &quot;new social order&quot; in the territory.
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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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XIAMEN, China  - Dirty, polluted, and congested -- China's large cities have an unenviable poor reputation.