Fragile environment on Plateau gets protection

BEIJING – The State Council on Thursday published a comprehensive plan to protect the environment and ecology on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau over the next 20 years. “The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is facing grave challenges due to…

Southern China braces for more weather woes

A old man in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province clears up his house after floods. Photo: CFP By Huang Jingjing Southern China is bracing for a new set of devastating floods and landslides after weather authorities announced…

Banned chemical leads to recall of medicine

BEIJING – China’s top drug authority ordered the recall at the weekend of an antibiotic medicine that is laced with a banned plasticizer as public concern about plasticizer-tainted products builds. Test results showed that amoxicillin…

Millions hit by flood havoc in China

A makeshift raft provides an effective, if rudimentary, form of transport in a flooded village in Zhuji, Zhejiang province, on Sunday. Days of torrential rain have forced the evacuation of more than 500,000 people in…

Flood alert at top level; 555,000 evacuated

    Residents walk along a flooded street in Kaihua county, Zhejiang province June 15, 2011. [Photo/Agencies] BEIJING – China has mobilised troops to help with flood relief and raised its disaster alert to the highest…

China to exempts “green” vehicles from taxation

BEIJING — The State Council, or China’s cabinet, on Wednesday began soliciting public opinions on a draft regulation for the implementation of the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law, which will exempt electric cars, fuel-cell vehicles…