Asian Development Outlook- April 2025
<p>Weak consumption in the People’s Republic of China will partly offset robust domestic demand in South Asia. Disinflation is expected to continue, driven by lower food and energy prices, along
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China has launched its first ever agricultural survey which involved 230 million rural households in approximately 800,000 villages. The survey, said He Huanyan, an official with the national
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China lacks sewage facilities
Together with heavy opposition against Beijing hosting the Olympics in 2008 due to increasing air pollution in the country, China faces many other environmental problems. Chinese city officials
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Battlelines drawn
Farm trade: it s developing countries vs EU US
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China struggles for safe mining
But many believe closing over 7,000 coalmines would be futile
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Black is not green
THE Chinese are in an unenviable position. On one hand, they have large reserves of cheap coal, enough to meet the rising demands of energy consumption. On the other, they have to contend with the
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Roadblock ahead
Even as electric bicycles are riding high on a popularity wave in Beijing, traffic officials have decided to phase them out by 2005. The user-friendly features of these vehicles
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In short
<font class="UCASE"><b>mines found in tibet:</b></font> Chinese geologists have found 600 possible mining sites on the Tibetan plateau for mining iron, copper, lead, zinc and other metal ores. "Once the mines are developed they will greatly relieve the strain on China's existing resources,' said Zhuang Yuxun, lead geologist. One of the biggest potential reserves is an estimated 500 million tonnes of rich iron ore in the Nixiong area, close to the centre of the plateau that covers a vast area inhabited mostly by Tibetans.
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CHINA
Top environment officials from China and the us will meet in Beijing to exchange ideas and discuss specific cooperation schemes. Carol Browner, administrator of the us Environmental
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Relocating to resuscitate
Fishing, boat traffic and industrial effluents have put the rare Chinese Yangtze river dolphins at risk. But there is hope on the horizon for these aquatic creatures with Chinese scientists chalking
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Borneo's forests hacked
Borneo s tropical forests face the axe