As we noted earlier this week, Baimiao village in Sichuan has been experimenting with "naked government," and that doesn't mean what you might think it does. What it does mean is that all government expenses have been made available online for the public to scrutinize.
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African pastoralism has been dismissed as outdated and inefficient. But awareness of its social and environmental benefits is growing, says Ced Hesse.

It has been 50 years since the scientist turned eco-evangelist began her seminal work with chimpanzees in Africa. But, writes Stephen Moss, her work is far from finished.

Richina Leather was sanctioned by China’s environmental authorities every year between 2004 and 2008, but little is known about its management. Xu Shuda looks at the faces behind the corporation.

A reader of my brief post on China's "one-child policy" alerted me to an informative report in Southern Weekend titled "30 Years of Birth Planning: to Change or not to Change?" which points out that the original policy was set for 30 years, and so 2010 becomes the designated year for change. This Chinese report summarizes the debate on whether to allow each and every couple a second child that is raging among Chinese policy researchers.
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More Photos of Beijing today, really bizarre with this red dust.
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Today Bejing was covered with a fine layer of reddish silt from Inner Mongolia, here is the result.
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I guess that means elections, but not fair one’s. In the blurb below, China takes a shot at the US  saying that often the winner of an election got their just due to cash and influence due to connections. Which is I guess the antithesis of how one comes to power in China- through, um [...]
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Big brother, or just a Concerned China, you decideexcerpt:“Chongqing police will work out a real-name Internet monitoring system that will locate netizens’ true personal identifications, whether they are using Messenger-style chat rooms or Twitter-style blogs, a municipal official said to local evening newspaper Thursday.Chongqing mobile users will also be covered in the monitoring network, said [...]
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