The Tibetan authorities handed out 2.9 billion yuan (466 million U.S. dollars) last year as rewards for environmental protection, the regional assembly was told on Wednesday.

TWO garbage incineration plants are being allowed to operate illegally by the government in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, it is alleged, forcing residents to move and sickening

At least 11 people were injured yesterday when a magnitude 5 earthquake hit southwest China’s Sichuan Province.

Vietnam launched here on Wednesday a national action plan to promote the Zero Hunger Challenge, an important initiative to remove famine raised by the United Nations (U.N.) Secretary General Ban Ki

AT least 212 villagers have been infected with HIV in a remote Roka commune in northwest Cambodia's Battambang province, the Cambodian Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) joi

COLD wave conditions continued to grip northern India, including the capital New Delhi, where at least four people have died of cold over the past two days, said officials Saturday.

SHANGHAI’S air reached severely polluted last night, its worst this year, as the city air quality index passed 300.

REDUCING pollution caused by heavy trucks and ships will be a priority for Shanghai this year, an environment official said yesterday.

SHANGHAI’S overall air quality improved in 2014 from 2013 thanks to the absence of extreme weather and the city’s anti-air pollution measures that include promoting the use of cleaner energy source

AIR pollution in the city yesterday reached eight times the World Health Organization safe level.

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