Solid waste import bans
China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment announced yesterday that China will ban imports of 32 types of solid waste in its latest move to reduce environmental pollution. Sixteen types of solid waste,
Shanghai Daily (China)
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China eyes nuke power to cut pollution
China boasts the world’s largest nuclear power capacity under construction as it strives to reduce pollution from coal-burning generators, an official said yesterday. Nuclear power projects approved
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Tianjin issues first red alert for pollution
China's northern port city of Tianjin issued its first ever red alert for air pollution, the most serious level, on Monday night, as it joins neighboring Beijing in fighting the lingering winter smog.
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H1N1 rises to top spot, but no fear of epidemic
THE H1N1 flu virus has become the major influenza strain in the city this winter and there has been a rise in the number of cases this month, officials from the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and
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Death toll in NE China mine fire hits 17
Another four miners have been confirmed dead, bringing the death toll in a mine fire in northeast China's Liaoning Province to 17 as of Friday morning, local authorities said. The fire broke out Thursday
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Taiwan bans GM food
Taiwan’s legislature yesterday banned school canteens from using genetically modified food, such as vegetables or tofu. The ban is part of a revision to a decree on school sanitation that covers canteens.
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Respiratory cases up
THE average daily number of respiratory cases have jumped 30 percent this month from November due to fluctuating weather and pollution. Dr Chen Jihong from Shanghai Ren’ai Hospital said most of the
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Warning bells of El Nino humanitarian disaster are deafening: Australian aid agency
The "super-charged" El Nino weather system could leave 4.7 million people across the Pacific with widespread hunger, thirst and disease if the global community doesn't urgently act as drought and erratic
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Myanmar launches first UNESCO biosphere reserve
Myanmar has launched the country's first UNESCO Biosphere Reserve -- Inle Lake in Shan state, opening a new chapter in its commitment to bio-diversity and eco-system conservation, official media reported
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New UN-backed report analyzes global health trends
The World Health Organization on Tuesday launched a new comprehensive analysis of global health trends since 2000 and an assessment of the challenges for the next 15 years, a UN spokesman said here.
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Japan's Mt. Aso has small eruption, spews smoke 700 meters into air
Mount Aso in Japan's southwestern Kumamoto Prefecture erupted Monday morning, but the weather agency said the eruption was small. According to Japan's Meteorological Agency, Monday's eruption marked