For many Chinese, the country’s soil pollution crisis has become increasingly acute in recent weeks after several hundred children fell ill from attending a school built close to a former fertiliser factory. ….
by Dorji Kyi
Recent news articles tell of Tibetan people whose lives have been devastated by forced resettlement, with reports of unemployment, poverty and alcoholism. ….
By Joel Wuthnow, The National Interest (Magazine) April 19, 2016
The Brahmaputra is the next test for Beijing and New Delhi.
On April 18–19, the Chinese and Indian defense ministers will meet in Beijing to discuss border issues. ….
There is a possibility of a more severe earthquake in the Himalayas – although it isn’t certain when – than the 7.9-magnitude tremblor that devastated Nepal on April 25, according to the latest research. ….
Scientists at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research have discovered that plants found on the Tibetan plateau unfold their leaves as they ‘sense’ the onset of the Indian summer monsoon. ….
The Xinjiang government has banned glacier tourism under the far north-western province’s five year plan to try and save its fast disappearing ice caps. Home to China’s largest glaciers, the far north-western Xinjiang province has seen its glaciers recede sharply in recent years. ….
China’s just-released 13th Five Year Plan — which sets out the country’s economic and social blueprint — promises to be the greenest yet. It articulates the leadership’s aim to shift the vast economy away from fossil fuels and heavy industry and towards renewable energy and green growth. ….
By Claude Arpie, published in The Daily Pioneer on 25 February 2016
Tourism in China not only brings revenue to the regional Government, but also helps to ‘stabilise the plateau’. Unfortunately in India, the Nehruvian approach is still prevalent. ….
The Economist
GUO, the driver, pulls his car to a merciful halt high above a crevasse: time for a cigarette, and after seven hours of shuddering along narrow, twisting roads, time for his passengers to check that their fillings remain in place. ….
China is more closely involved in cross-border cooperation on hydropower and water management after the six countries that share the Mekong River signed a landmark agreement late last year. ….
