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...Strait, Samso (pop. 4,300) was far from cutting-edge when, in 1997, it won a government competition to become a model for how a community can run on renewable energy. At the time Samso was entirely dependent on oil and coal, both of which it imported from the mainland. A little more than a decade later Samso is effectively carbon negative, producing more than 100% of the electricity it needs from renewable sources, chiefly wind and biomass. The architect of that transformation is Soren Hermansen, a former farmer and environmental studies teacher, who lobbied, cajoled and pushed his initially...
...Under direct control of the autocratic Communist Party through the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, CCTV is the largest broadcaster in the country. With 16 national channels and over 10,000 employees, it reaches over one billion people in mainland China, with around a 30-percent airtime share. In a knowledge era, CCTV is at the core of the government’s control over the population...
...Beijing's Palace Museum and Taipei's National Palace Museum brokered a deal to send Chinese imperial artifacts to Taiwan for the first time in 60 years. In a show scheduled to open in October, the pieces will be reunited with objects taken by nationalists when they fled the mainland after losing China's civil war. Analysts interpret Beijing's conciliatory approach as a bid to improve China's image in Taiwan, perhaps to soften opposition to reunification. Whatever's behind it, Beijing's more amicable stance is welcome news to Chou Kung-shin, director of the Taipei museum. "Cultural...
...mainland investigators are missing the virus, it may be because efforts to block it are inadvertently hiding it. China developed an avian-influenza vaccine for poultry in 2005 and inoculates millions of birds annually. But not everyone agrees it's a panacea. In 2005 Robert Webster, an influenza expert at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., suggested that China may have been using substandard vaccines that stopped symptoms of bird flu in poultry but allowed the virus to continue to spread. Recently, Guangzhou-based expert Zhong Nanshan also said there is a danger that China's widespread...
...Mainland controls may be lacking another layer of more basic prevention in the way that live-chicken markets, prevalent throughout Asia, are inspected. Some worry that Chinese monitors may be calling for culls only when a large number of poultry become sick, as in Hotan this week, when 519 birds died. In contrast, last year Hong Kong culled thousands of birds after a regular inspection found only infected chickens in a wet market. The infected birds, experts say, showed no external signs of disease and could have been missed if inspectors were screening only birds that were dead or visibly...