Bad PR:Villagers in southwestern China are puzzled by a county government's decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green.Workers who began spraying Laoshou mountain in August told villagers that they were doing so on orders of the county... ...full story at Imagethief
from Imagethief on Thu, Feb 15 2007
see also:
| 02 Jan 08 |
  |
UNo's Blog 2: Holiday Hangover »
YouTube video Uno explains to you how his new year went with Spike and Pig.
Music used: "Holiday" by green Day which i do not own, I give credit for it to Green day and I also do not own mountain dew!
This video was made possible by me being fueled by chinese food,... |
| 15 Mar 07 |
 |
Painting mountains green » meoldchina A CURIOUS story emerged recently, involving a team of workers in southwestern China's Yunnan Province who were ordered to paint a mountain green, presumably in an attempt to improve the area's fengshui. The mountain, in the county of Fumin,... |
| 12 Mar 07 |
|
China: Who Painted the Mountain Green? » Global Voices ESWN translates three reporters account of their different versions of report on the Yunan’s artificial “green mountain”. |
| 23 May 08 |
 |
Two villagers, aged 92 and 84, rescued from isolated quake-struck mountain » People's Daily Chinese armed police on Thursday rescued an elderly couple, aged 92 and 84, after they had been stranded in an isolated mountain in southwestern Sichuan Province for 11 days because of the devastating earthquake. The childless coupl ... |
| 18 Apr 09 |
|
Mountain torrents kill 5 in E China county » People's Daily Five people, who had been trapped by mountain torrents Thursday at Huatanshan Town of Shangrao County, eastern China's Jiangxi Province, were confirmed dead, local government sources said Saturday. After 24 hours of rescue efforts, the five... |
| 10 Aug 09 |
|
Villagers seek to flee polluted area » Shanghai Daily THE villagers in a northwestern China county where excessive lead levels were found in hundreds of children's blood are considering an exodus to escape pollution. Now, 425 families living within 1 kilometer from... |
twitter
blogs
china
thailand
japan
technology