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/ 4 December 2009
With just days to go before the Copenhagen climate talks, the world waits for China to set its carbon target.
There is, at least, one green super skyscraper
in China’s new concrete jungle.
South Korea’s secretary for future vision is considering how many of his people it takes to change a million lightbulbs. No joke.
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/ 11 October 2008
China looks likely to emerge stronger in the weakened financial system after weathering its own crises of unrest in Tibet and the Sichuan earthquake.
The message to a distraught Chinese public, still reeling from withdrawal of the nation’s biggest sporting hero, could not have been clearer.
”I want to help the Olympics. It is just a small thing, but I want to make a contribution” says one of the cheerleaders bussed in to fill empty seats.
China faces a repair bill of almost -billion from the Sichuan earthquake, equivalent to one-fifth of its entire tax revenues for a single year.
Olympic organisers move to reassure the public and athletes after China’s deadliest suspected terrorist attack in more than a decade.
China’s Olympic security operation makes the country look like a police state, according to the artist behind Beijing’s spectacular new stadium.
Wind power in China has taken off faster than the government planned. This year, policymakers had to double their wind-power prediction for 2010.