Can China’s dynamic zero-COVID policy survive in the face of citizen protests, infectious variants?

China is recording more than 70,000 COVID-19 cases daily, a pandemic high for the country  

South China sinks; thousands evacuated from manufacturing hubs

Fears grow about global economic supply chain disruptions

China's 'Silk Road urbanism' is changing cities from London to Kampala – can locals keep control?

China’s ambition to reshape the world economy has sparked massive infrastructure projects spanning all the way from Western Europe to East …

China close to measles-free status: WHO report

No deaths from measles were reported in China for the last 18 months

Why China’s shrinking population is a big deal — counting the social, economic and political costs of an aging, smaller society

By 2040, around a quarter of the Chinese population is predicted to be over the age of 65

India surpasses China to become most populous country in the world

While India’s population growth has slowed, it will continue to rise till 2050

NASA images show flood water spilling from Yangtze river dams

Water was seen moving through the gates of the Three Gorges Dam to the smaller Gezhouba Dam, around 26 kilometres southeast

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Eastern China set for record-hot summers, says study

Since 1950s, summer mean temperature in the region has increased by 0.82 °C

‘China growth model cannot be universal’

Wen Teijun, dean of Renim University in Beijing, has been documenting the world's agrarian history and turmoils. He initiated the New Rural …

Rising sea levels could swamp sinking Shanghai

More than half the city will be under 1.2 metres of flood waters by the end of this century if action is not taken now

COVID-19: WHO has only $1.2 mln to fight outbreak

More international economic groups confirmed initial assessments that  China's economy is going to dip because of the COVID-19 outbreak  

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Photography: Still lives

Time has almost stood still in the tiny Lower Nanyao village beneath the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in south-western China. Wild buffaloes still …

COVID-19 cut China's carbon dioxide emissions by a quarter: Report

COVID-19 may have shaved off more than 100 tonnes of CO2 in the early February 2020

Chinise flora

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Landmark decision

That sinking feeling

Panda caf

Uncle Sam don't scare

China's environmental norms for filmmakers

How the saltwater crocodile once lorded over Vietnam’s waterways…and then died out

A new article published in the IUCN Crocodile Specialist Group Newsletter details the history of saltwater crocodiles in Vietnam and southern China