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BBC News
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Olympic chief Jacques Rogge says air pollution could lead to some events at the 2008 Beijing Games being postponed.
Speaking a year to the day before the start of the 2008 Games, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said: "It is a..
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SF Gate
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This is a rare place in today's China. With no industrial pollution and a temperate climate, farms here produce some of the country's best fruits and vegetables - famous not only for their taste, but mainly because they are uncontaminated.
There are no..
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Financial Times
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Beijing engineered the removal of nearly a third of a World Bank report on pollution in China because of concerns that findings on premature deaths could provoke “social unrest”.
The report, produced in co-operation with Chinese government ministri..
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BBC News
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The World Bank is alleged to have cut from a report research that suggests pollution causes hundreds of thousands of premature deaths annually in China.
The move followed pressure from Beijing, which believes the material is too sensitive and could lea..
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BBC News
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Police stations across the Indian city of Calcutta have been equipped with oxygen devices to enable police to offset the effects of pollution.
The extra air is for the benefit of hundreds of traffic policemen in the city who have to brave some of the w..
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Reuters
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Pollution is turning the Taj Mahal yellow, despite efforts by the Indian government to control air contamination around the poignant 17th century monument and keep it shimmering white, a parliamentary committee has said.
In a report to parliament this..
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Yahoo News
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The United Nations said Tuesday that China has made progress in increasing access to water for its citizens but still faces serious challenges in fighting pollution...
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