In a bizarre turn of the situation, two Chinese Christians and relief helpers of the Sichuan earthquake were arrested and tried for what officials called ‘disturbing the peace and endangering the health of others.”
U.S.-based ChinaAid Association (CAA) reported Friday that it received the official statement on the administrative proceddings for the trial of Ms Wei Sanhong and Mr Wu Han on 26 August. They were arrested by Nanbu County Public Security Bureau in Sichuan on 28 June. Officially detained for “acting under the guise of religion” and “disturbing the society and impairing others’ health,” it stated. Read More / Watch Video »
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Up to 10,000 Chinese villagers have clashed with police in eastern China in the latest incident in a wave of social unrest caused by fears over industrial pollution. 
XINING, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) — An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale struck remote Qinghai Province in northwest China at 6:15 p.m. Monday, the China Earthquake Administration said. 
BEIJING — A drought in China’s north has left nearly 5 million people short of drinking water and damaged crops, while dry weather in the south could cause more shortages, a state news agency reported Sunday. 
China could see its greenhouse gas emissions peak in 2030 if it sets “quantitative” reduction targets and invests heavily in the use of clean fuel technologies, a government panel of experts has said. 
China has closed a factory in its northwest which is suspected of causing lead poisoning in more than 300 children, state media said on Wednesday. 
The river has dried up, the well yields only dust, and Li Yunxi is hard pressed to irrigate his plot of land, even though he lives right next to the largest water project in history.
Amid fears the city’s chronic smog could damage athlete’s health, Beijing took drastic steps to prevent that last August, moving or cleaning up polluting factories, curbing traffic, and ordering a halt to all construction work.
More than 500 people have been sickened by pollution from a chemical plant in central China that has also been blamed for two deaths, state media reported Monday.
BEIJING — Thousands of people have been placed under quarantine in a town in northwest China after a man died of pneumonic plague and 11 others were confirmed infected with the deadly lung infection, health authorities said. 
China is aiming to increase its coal production by about 30 percent by 2015 to meet its energy needs, the government has announced, in a move likely to fuel concerns over global warming.
