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...crow local urban planners?consumes the same amount of electricity as the city receives from the Three Gorges Dam, now in its first stage of operation. And, as the vanguard of all things cool in China, Shanghai has inspired similarly wasteful lighting schemes in other metropolises such as Tianjin, Nanjing and Kunming. "Shanghai has the opportunity to influence other cities, but right now it's not setting a very good example," says Tongji University's Long...
...parent organization, however, have different immediate aims. China Care facilitates the adoption of orphans from Tianjin, China, coordinates operations of smaller chapters in the United States and sends medical teams abroad to treat the children...
Madam Gu, as Dalio calls her, helped Dalio set up the Chinese side of the organization, introducing him to the China Charity Federation, orphanages in Tianjin and Shanxi and children’s hospitals in Beijing...
...Phoenix, Ariz., among others. So why is Toyota, a Japanese company with U.S. offices in Torrance, Calif., the nameplate for the new Toyota Center arena in Houston? For one 7-ft. 5-in. reason: Yao Ming, the Houston Rockets star from Shanghai. Toyota opened a new plant in Tianjin, China, and hopes millions of Yao fans will soon be Corolla fans...
...total have hit China's villages, where 800 million people live. But in Hebei alone, the number of reported cases shot up from 48 at the end of April to 157 on May 10. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued a travel advisory for Inner Mongolia and Tianjin, after their SARS caseloads rose to 284 and 149 respectively. Last week, Premier Wen Jiabao said there is currently "no large-scale epidemic emerging in the rural areas." Even so, he warned that dilapidated medical facilities, poor equipment and shoddy monitoring for epidemics were "hidden dangers for the spread of SARS...