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HOTELS TAKING "GOING GREEN" TO NEW TOPS WITH GREEN ROOFS

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 10.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Stefanie Michaels, Shanghai, Chicago, Audubon Society, Green, China, Greenlodgingnews.com, Mirror Lake, Leed, New York, Reuse, Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort, Green Seal Certification, Lake PLacid, Recycle, Hotels, Environmental, Adventure Girl, Environment, North America, Green Weddings, Reduce, Songjiang Hotel, Wildlife, Intercontinental Hotel, Baltimore, Green Roofs, Hvac, Hilton, Green News
Stefanie Michaels

Hotels are looking for new ways to run more efficiently and looking to nature to give them some ideas. The latest in green technology is allowing hote...

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The China Question: To Beg or to Blog?

Steve Posner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: China Communist Party, Chinese Communists, Chinese Workers, Beijing Olympics, Chinese, Mao Zedong, China Censorship, China Poverty, Chinese Peasants, China, Shanghai, China Human Rights, China Boycott, Politics News
Steve Posner

Mao's successors in the Communist Party are offering the Chinese people food but not freedom, and many are happy to take the deal.

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Kobe Leads The Way As Team USA Downs Russia

AP | BRIAN MAHONEY | Posted 08.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: USA Basketball, Team USA, Kobe Bryant, U.S. Olympic Basketball, Olympics, Shanghai, Beijing Olympics, Entertainment News

SHANGHAI, China — Russia contained the speedsters. Controlled the backboards. Everything a team needs to do to beat the United States. Except st...

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Shanghai Shows Olympic Excitement

Meghan Peters | Posted 07.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Beijing, Olympics, Beijing Olympics, China Olympics, Shanghai, Living News
Meghan Peters

Despite being nearly as far from Beijing as San Francisco is from Seattle, Shanghai had the same "Beijing 2008" signs that are scattered throughout China's capital.

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An Awful Competition in a Changing China

Lea Lane | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Tong Li, Hang Zhou, Shanghai, Sun Yat-Sen, MagLev Train, China, Olympics, Suzhou, Living News
Lea Lane

For the Olympics, the air no doubt will be cleaned. But glimpsing twenty years of changes in China I can only wonder what direction this huge, complex country will take twenty years from now.

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Falun Gong, Other "Troublemakers" Confined to Shanghai During Games

AP | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Falun Gong, Chinese Dissidents, Human Rights, China, Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Shanghai, Politics News

BEIJING — Shanghai has banned dissidents, Falun Gong members and other regime critics from leaving the city during the August Olympics, a human ...

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Honk if You're Heartbroken

Megan Shank | Posted 05.19.2008 | Living

Read More: Sichuan, Memorial, China Earthquake, Mourning, China Earthquake Death Toll, Shanghai, Living News
Megan Shank

Today at approximately 2:30pm in Shanghai, a swell of horns surged outside of my 19th floor office window. It was one of the first in a three-day period of nationwide mourning.

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Getting Fired for Getting Pregnant

Melanie McGanney | Posted 04.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Art Gallery, Pregnancy, Chinese Art, China, Shanghai, China Labor Law, Labor Law, Living News
Melanie McGanney

Owner and expecting mother Michelle Ni was asked to leave her job at a photography gallery when it became apparent that she was pregnant.

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Björk Exposes China's Greatest Weakness

David Flumenbaum | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Shanghai, Beijing Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics, Bjork, Politics News
David Flumenbaum

No matter how aggressively China disposes of its dissidents and muzzles its critics ahead of the Olympic games, Bjork's protest for Tibetan freedom highlights China's gravest modern problem.

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The Problem with Migrant Workers

Megan Shank | Posted 01.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Chinese New Year, Spring Festival, Chinese Labor, China, Shanghai, Chinese Migrant Workers, Politics News
Megan Shank

Every year, millions of migrant workers come to Shanghai from the countryside in search of work. They live in subpar conditions -- unheated trailers or plastic tarp tents -- and work backbreaking hours.

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