Topic: China
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will introduce stricter air pollution standards from next year to monitor tiny floating pollution particles in Beijing and other big cities but may not start releasing the results to the public until 2016, state media said on Thursday.Swathes ...
China on Tuesday ordered local governments to reduce emissions of "major pollutants" by as much as 10 percent by 2015, amid growing public anxiety over the country's bad air.Authorities will also start to monitor the smallest and most dangerous airborne pollution, known ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China promised Tuesday to contain heavy metal pollution but admitted it faces a challenge with inadequate environment protection resources in a rapidly growing economy.China wants to cut its heavy metal pollution by 15 percent of 2007 levels by 2015, ...
Apple has for the first time held talks with environmental campaigners who accuse the company's Chinese manufacturers of widespread pollution, participants said Wednesday.The maker of the iPad and iPhone agreed to meet five Chinese environmental groups after they issued a report in ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's air pollution standards are too lax, a senior environment official said in comments published on Friday, the highest level comment following complaints that authorities are understating the extent of smog that often envelops Beijing.The level of air pollution ...
Several Chinese celebrities have joined an online campaign aimed at pressuring the government into improving the way it measures air pollution, as residents increasingly worry about their health.The campaign comes as locals in Beijing -- one of the world's most polluted cities ...
About 10 percent of China's farmland contains excessive levels of heavy metals due to contaminated water and poisonous waste seeping into the soil, state media said Monday, citing a government survey.Pollution from heavy metals such as lead, mercury and cancer-causing cadmium is ...
Environmental authorities in Beijing have accused the US embassy of "hype" after its widely-publicised measurements of air quality in the Chinese capital sparked concern, state media said Friday.The embassy's readings, published on Twitter, often clash with official data. On Sunday, it rated ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Catcher Technology, a casing supplier for Apple Inc, said a plant in China that was ordered closed due to complaints about pollution could fully reopen as early as next month.It said in a statement that all improvement work at ...
SHANGHAI/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Some of Apple Inc's suppliers in China have once again come under scrutiny, with state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) accusing them of causing pollution.Taiwan media gave prominent play on Wednesday to an investigative report aired on Sunday in ...
