Tag Archives: water

Panic buying of water in Liuzhou – a report from the ground

BBC News — 26 January 2012: River pollution sparks panic water buying in China city Ken Fletcher is a British resident of Liuzhou in Guangxi Province where the panic buying is taking place. He sent this report to Danwei on January 27. … Continue reading →

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Bringing the Bohai Sea to Xinjiang

A conference proposes routing seawater from Bohai Gulf to Xinjiang to fight desertification.

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Water in Hubei

Three stories about water in today’s Chutian Metropolis Daily.

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Messing around with public hearings

A public hearing on the price of water had ringers in the consumer delegation. Journalist Teng Yun argues that even conducted above-board, hearings are still useless.

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The importance of an ATM thief’s retrial

Midi cancelled; Xu Ting’s retrial; BOCOG vs. Australia; Beijing’s reservoirs; Old Beijing buildings; music design

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Minting money without a license

Tencent hits quarterly targets with virtual currency; water woes on the western border; Taiwan elections; a journalist’s odyssey in Lanzhou; Xinjiang riots.

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Danwei Picks: more foreign film shenanigans

‘Shanghai’ blocked from filming; Suez tries to collect fees for its water utility; more on Edison Chen; Olympic architecture is awesome. And Taoist hell.

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Danwei Picks: 2007-12-21

SCMP gets bought out, Washington Monthly looks at Yangtze River water use, and Southern Weekly goes behind the scenes of the PX public hearings.

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The right to drink water

South Wind View (南风窗) for 1 December, 2007, features stories on water usage, political reform, and color revolutions.

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Beijing’s not going anywhere (2)

Moving the capital away from Beijing may be better than the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (南水北调), or it may not.

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