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...city of Harbin had been shut off, and just days before the slick crossed the border into Russia. The botched response led to the dismissal of China's top environmental official and to renewed calls for transparency and stricter enforcement of environmental standards. But little has changed. Recently Pan Yue, deputy director of China's State Environmental Protection Administration, admitted the Songhua had seen some 130 "pollution accidents" in the past 11 months...
...senior tutor in Mather House. “As soon as the grades were in, we did get a letter for the registrar,” Rana said.But, she said, by that point it was too late.Graduating seniors Qicheng Ma, Sabrina E. De Abreu, Elisa M. Segovia, and Yue Zhou described similar experiences.Zhou says she hoped to hear from Citigroup today about whether she will still have a job with them after graduation.Students said they are unsure whether there is any action they or Harvard can take to remedy the problem.“I talked to the international office...
...Officials in Heilongjiang declined to confirm Zhang's comments. "It was an internal meeting," said an official from the Heilongjiang Information Department who identified himself only by his surname, Yue, "which means it was not the kind of news that should be reported. It was confidential information." The party's flagship newspaper, People's Daily, reported on the meeting but never mentioned Zhang's explanation of the cover-up. It reported only that Zhang announced the formation of an emergency leadership group to manage the crisis, with himself as its head...
...Italian-themed Pujiang, a group of farmers eyeing the airy granite-and-glass concoction that will serve as the new town hall, exhibition center and restaurant arcade grumbles that there's no way they will be able to afford to live in their own hometown. But inside the building, Yue Xing, president of Shanghai Highpower-Oct Investment Ltd., one of the developers of Pujiang New Town, defends his urban vision: "We are not judging [future residents] by how much money they have but by their commitment to enjoying a better quality of life. We have to think about...
...Last week, however, the agency pulled off a rare victory. On Wednesday, SEPA vice director Pan Yue announced that it had successfully halted construction on 30 major projects, including the massive Xiluodu Dam on the upper Yangtze River, all of which had apparently failed to carry out legally mandated environmental-impact assessments before building. Major power plants have long been dismissive of environmental regulations: the China Three Gorges Project Corp., which is responsible for the $5.3 billion Xiluodu Dam, initially defied SEPA's order to stop building on Jan. 18?a breach for which the agency could do nothing more...