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...Yudui, it started out as a relatively peaceful protest of 1,000 villagers against a plan by local officials to seize land to build a power plant. The 26-year-old air conditioner salesman had returned to his home town of Dongzhou to get married, but instead his family this week buried him after a secret funeral. Hundreds of riot police and soldiers, plus several tanks, were called in to disperse the protesters with tear gas-not that unusual in a country where the number of demonstrations over everything from environmental degradation to land seizures are increasing every year. Such...
RESIGNED. XIE ZHENHUA, 56, Director of China's State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA); in the aftermath of the Nov. 13 chemical plant explosion, which spewed 100 tons of pollutants into the Songhua River; in Beijing. Xie is the highest-ranking official to lose his job over an environmental disaster. Official reports gave no details on Xie's role in government decisions to withhold information from the public about the river contamination, which resulted in a four-day shut-off of water for more than 3 million people in the city of Harbin. The poisonous slick, expected to reach the Russian...
...volume of volatile organic compounds" without increasing costs, says Swartz. "That's not limousine liberal, not self-indulgent. It is hard-nosed business. That is the innovation we seek." When foreign vendors complain that water-based adhesives are too expensive, Swartz says, Timberland invites their engineers to its plant in the Dominican Republic and shows them how to cut costs...
...million in tax each year if Wilfong's proposal is passed. "His mission is misguided," says Kim Jeffery, CEO of Nestlé North America, which now pays only for the land where the springs are found. In response to a new tax, he says, Nestlé would cancel a planned new plant, costing the state 250 jobs...
...preparing for his funeral. Last Tuesday afternoon, Lin joined what locals estimate was a 1,000-strong protest in southern China's Dongzhou village, where three people had been detained while demanding compensation for land that residents say had been seized by local officials to build a power plant. Hundreds of riot police and soldiers, plus several tanks, were called in to disperse the protesters with tear gas?not that unusual in a country where standoffs over everything from environmental degradation to land seizures are increasing every year. In 2004, China was rocked by 74,000 "mass incidents," according...