Monday, September 27, 2004

News

Hong Kong officials on mission to China to cut smog: Hong Kong environment officials will travel to China to find ways of cutting smog that drifts into the city from mainland power plants and factories.

Google Conforms to Chinese Censorship: Google Inc.'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil."

How China copes with an aging population: The old lady leans against the railing of her balcony, gazing idly at the queue of cars moving slowly below her building in northwestern Beijing. Now and then, her wrinkled face would light up but disappointment almost always follows. Sun Yuying, 78, is waiting for her daughter's silver Volkswagen Jetta though she knows it is not likely to appear on a weekday.


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