Cloud Seeding Fails to Ease Drought: Instead of flushing liters of fresh water down the toilet, 26-year-old Beijing resident Tie Yingbin now saves used water from her kitchen and uses it in the toilet.
China home to 236,000 millionaires: The number of Chinese citizens with at least US$ 1 million in financial assets, excluding the value of home real estate, increased by 12 percent year-on-year in 2003, pushing the total to 236,000.
Restaurants Closed for Opium Soup, Stews: The soup wasn't just good. It was downright addictive. Narcotics police in southwestern China shuttered 215 restaurants found to be mixing opium poppy into their soups and hot pot stews. [NYT, reg. req.]
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