Asian Development Outlook- April 2025
<p>Weak consumption in the People’s Republic of China will partly offset robust domestic demand in South Asia. Disinflation is expected to continue, driven by lower food and energy prices, along
China
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Sky blue
With booming industries, Beijing finds it difficult to control SO2 and particulate matter. NO2 and toxic hydrocarbons add to its problems. After seven years of controls, SO2 and CO are down by
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A gory lab
Absence of laws makes China the new hub of primate research
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Rattled
Never since the times of the Pied Piper of Hamelin were rats so dangerous. Only this time the menace is far greater. Thousands of hectares of China's major rice and cotton belt in Hunan province have
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One hour deadline
China's environment watchdog, the State Environmental Protection Administration (sepa), has recently asked industrial units and local officials to report environmental accidents to it within an hour
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Power and people
China plans to turn the Nu River in southwest Yunnan province with a chain of up to 13 hydropower stations, into a hydroelectric hub. The government's release of a five-year development plan draft
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Typhoon Prapiroon hits southern China
More than 40,000 people were evacuated as typhoon Prapiroon hit southern China on August 3, pounding an already battered area with more heavy rains and winds. Till reports last received, at least six
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IN SHORT
green gdp: According to the China Green National Accounting Study Report 2004, the country suffered economic losses to the tune of US $64 billion
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Bytes
marine boom: An unprecedented census of marine life is reporting three new fish species a week on an average. In the first interim report of the census, an international team of scientists predicts
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Another crisis walled
China is going to build another
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Finally, some action
The Chinese government recently announced that it will close down around 4,000 small coal mines annually, over the next three years. Zhao Tiechui, head of the state administration of Coal Mine Safety