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The government has ordered work stoppages at construction sites, chemical plants, cement manufacturers and mines by July 20. Beijing Eastern Petrochemical will suspend production until September. The city will also ban spray painting and crack down on printing, furniture production and motor vehicle repair outlets that don't meet city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing's Olympic War on Smog | 4/15/2008 | See Source »

With less than four months to go before the start of the Olympics, Beijing is nearing the home stretch in its efforts to clean up its air. On Monday environmental authorities announced the latest set of measures to ensure that athletes and spectators won't be subjected to the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing's Olympic War on Smog | 4/15/2008 | See Source »

The run-up to the Beijing Olympics has been clouded by one confusing crisis after another. Jacques Rogge, President of the International Olympic Committee president, said on Thursday that he was "saddened" by the violence that broke out along the torch relay's bumpy road and acknowledged that it had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Murky Olympic Terror Threats | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

Officially, the revelations sound ominous. One of the groups was allegedly headed by a terrorist sent into China by "East Turkestan" separatists from overseas, said the ministry spokesman Wu Heping. East Turkestan is the name given to China's huge Xinjiang province by separatists belonging to the Uighur ethnicity. (It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Murky Olympic Terror Threats | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

It has been only a month since Beijing said that it had prevented a terrorist attack on a passenger plane from Urumqi to Beijing, one that was to have been carried out by a 19-year old ethnic Uighur woman "terrorist." The first two months of the year did not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Murky Olympic Terror Threats | 4/10/2008 | See Source »

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