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Intensive deforestation in Indonesia – fuelled by corruption – is scarring the landscape and wrecking a vital resource. Andre Vltchek went to see the devastation.
Tin-mine pits are like enormous open wounds dominating the landscape of island Bangka, near Sumatra and only 40 minutes flight from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. [...]
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If you’re going to be flying in to Urumqi this summer, chances are you’ll be arriving in the newly-built Terminal 3. With a price tag of 1.3 billion yuan, this international hub for China Southern Airlines should go into full operation this Saturday, March 27th, 2010.
It’s interesting for [...]
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You know you’ve been ‘out and about’ perhaps just a bit too often in recent months when bar owners start calling you up to ask why you haven’t been in for three days.
My countrymen may recognise the post title as an adapted catchphrase from Michael Heath’s long-running but now [...]
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Rumours of a proposed redevelopment scheme for the Gulou area of Beijing have been troubling my sleep for the past few months.
Now, I learn to my dismay that they are considerably more than rumours. It seems the plans are at quite an advanced stage, and over the past couple [...]
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Yale Environment 360: E-Waste Trade Ban Will Worsen Problem of ‘Backyard Recycling,’ Study Says
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Great post here, I will provide excerpts below. This is from an interview with a guy named Paul Midler, a Wharton grad who authored the book, POORLY MADE IN CHINA. The guy has some good insight, and it mirrors my own experience in China.
“As a fix-it man for overseas [...]
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Took this a few days ago, today, it started to rain, get rid of some of that red dust.
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