China villagers see red over green-painted quarry
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Residents in a southwestern Chinese village are baffled by a local forestry bureau's decision to paint a quarry near their homes entirely green, state media said on Wednesday.
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This envelope may be red, but it sure contains a lot of green.
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Local officials said Monday they are considering the construction of a giant mirror to light up this mountain village with 198 residents who are deprived of sunlight for three months each year.
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Protesters gather near the site of a proposed eco-town planned for a former Army camp.
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In the face of new competition, primarily from China, produce farmers have joined forces for the first time.
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TONG BUJI, China -- Every few weeks, farmer Long Zhu Xiang walks about 30 minutes down the rubble-strewn path that connects her remote impoverished village in Guizhou Province to a county road and then takes a bus ride into the nearest county town to sell the one precious commodity she has -- her blood.
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China says 312 million villagers face water shortages or use water contaminated by fluorine, arsenic and organic or industrial pollutants.
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BAODING, China  - Dusty villages far from China's capital are paying their own price for the government's plan to stage a postcard-perfect Olympic Games, enduring shrunken crops, drained wells and contention over lost land and homes.
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Hundreds of Chinese villagers are hit by lead poisoning caused by pollution from a local plant, reports say.
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By Bill Dolan, The Times, Munster, Ind.  Feb. 1--CROWN POINT -- The People's Republic of China is willing to help  Lake County save tax dollars by reducing the cost of garbage recycling.
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Rising wages on China's more prosperous eastern coast are pushing some factories inland where labor is cheap.
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Self-described anarchists on Friday poured dye into Rome's Trevi Fountain, turning the water in the tourist magnet a bright blood-red, an AFP reporter witnessed.
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Since China's peasantry began falling far behind the urban elite in the go-go 1990's, the countryside has been a font of unrest.
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A landslide engulfs a village in southern China, leaving 65 people missing, state media reports
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By Teddy Ng  Hong Kong entrepreneurs who own factories in the Pearl River Delta Region are grappling with a new challenge: Care about pollution or perish.
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Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads after an estimated more than $60,000 was spent to paint an entire barren mountainside green.
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SANDAOLING, China  - Dong Ye lights a cigarette  and doesn't give a second thought to fate -- his or his  country's -- as he steps off a dump truck onto the dirt road  that winds into the Sandaoling coal quarry.