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03.04.2014
Henan Villagers Seek Justice in Hepatitis C Scandal
CaixinVillagers from a county in the central province of Henan say they are still seeking justice almost two years after a doctor admitted reusing syringes and nearly 1,000 people were found to have hepatitis C.
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02.28.2014
Citizen Sues Local Government for Failing to Curb Air Pollution
chinadialogueAlthough residents in Northern China are no strangers to dirty air, a man from the smog-enshrouded Hebei province has decided to take the local environmental authority to court for failing to control air pollution.
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02.24.2014
The Disabled in China
Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, James PalmerThis week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy are joined by James Palmer and John Giszczack for a discussion of the disabled in China.
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02.19.2014
Water Pollution: More Difficult to Fix Than Dirty Air?
chinadialogueAlthough China’s air pollution keeps making headlines, its water pollution is just as urgent a problem.
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02.12.2014
China Unlikely to Reduce Coal Use in the Next Decade
chinadialogueCoal will account for no less than sixty percent of China’s total energy use in the next decade, said Zheng Xinye, an energy economist at Renmin University.
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02.05.2014
By All Means Necessary
In the past thirty years, China has transformed from an impoverished country where peasants comprised the largest portion of the populace to an economic power with an expanding middle class and more megacities than anywhere else on earth
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01.31.2014
Beijing Passes Law to Curb Air Pollution
chinadialogueChina’s first legally binding regulations for reducing PM2.5 levels have been approved by Beijing’s municipal congress.
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01.30.2014
This Chinese Filmmaker Can’t Stop Talking Trash
Sun YunfanDocumentary filmmaker and photographer Wang Jiuliang spent four years, between 2008 and 2011, documenting over 460 hazardous and mostly illegal landfill sites around Beijing.
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01.29.2014
Banned Toxins Found in Kids’ Clothes Made in China
chinadialogueToxic chemicals have been found in children’s clothes sold by Burberry, Adidas, Disney, and nine other brands, according to a report
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01.21.2014
Real-time Air Quality Data Due from 179 Chinese Cities
chinadialogueMore than 170 cities in China have now joined a real-time air quality disclosure scheme, initiated by the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
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01.08.2014
The Drying Up of China’s Largest Freshwater Lake
chinadialogueWhen Jiang Minsheng moored his fishing boat on the eastern shore of Jiangxi’s Poyang L
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12.26.2013
2013 Year in Review
The EditorsAs the year draws to a close, we want to take a moment to look back at some of the stories ChinaFile published in 2013. We hope you’ll find something that interests you to read—or watch—over the holidays.