China's space programme received a setback with the explosion of a Loug March 313 rocket carrying a us satellite, Intelsat 708. China suspended all satellite launches' after the blast, which

Chinese authorities and a dredging contractor are involved in a mud-slinging match. The government stopped the contractor, Gitanes Engineering, from dumping nearly 250,000 cu m of sludge in

A draft law in China seeks to bring down noise pollution. The law authorises municipal authorities to crack down on everything from deafening construction sites to boisterous folk dancing. Some

TO MEET the rising demands of electricity, the Chinese government plans to augment its nuclear facilities by constructing 12 more nuclear plants apart from the present two. Nuclear power is

It IS time for rare rhododendrons to strike their roots in the native soil nearly a Century after they were sown on foreign soil by a British botanist, Ernest Wilson (1876-1930). 1 lie Royal

China is going ahead with its plans to build the Three Gorges dam billed as the world's largest water- control project on Yangtze river, despite concerns raised by environmentalists. They have

CABBAGE, once the favourite winter vegetable of the Chinese is seeing hard times. The ultimate insult has been heaped on it - it is being ignored and the new Chinese preferences

China's rising income levels could literally go tip in smoke. A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association maintains that lung cancer rates for the Chinese population was

The Beijing Conference on Women was a revelation of the 20th Century woman's status vis a vis environment and other issues

III-conceived nature conservation plans could very well become a bane rather than a boon.for the society