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YouTube video Beijing started its drastic traffic control plan on Sunday in a last-minute push to clear the capital's pollution-choked skies in time for the August Olympics. |
| 01 Sep 08 |
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Clearest skies for 10 years in Beijing » Shanghai Daily A MASSIVE effort to clear up the skies over Beijing for the Olympics paid off with China's capital seeing its cleanest air in a decade, the city's environmental authority said yesterday. The Beijing Municipal... |
| 11 Aug 08 |
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Cool, clear days ahead for Games » People's Daily Rainfall in Beijing will help bring down the summer heat and clear the haze shrouding the Olympic host city, a senior weather official said yesterday. "The rain will last till tomorrow and clear skies are ahead," Guo Hu, director of the Beijing... |
| 07 Oct 08 |
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Beijing To Force 800,000 Cars Off the Road Daily » TreeHugger Getty Images Anyone wondering if Beijing's azure blue skies would last after the "green" Olympics left town (hello) can breathe a small sigh of relief. It took a few weeks, but in an effort to keep the skies and roads relatively clear, the Beijing... |
| 20 Aug 08 |
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Nothing but 'blue skies' from now on » People's Daily Beijing is enjoying its cleanest air for 10 years and the blue skies are set to continue long after the Olympics, a top environment official said yesterday. &$ &$Beijing Olympic park welcomes the athletes and tourists all over the world against a... |
| 06 Aug 08 |
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Is it smog or ’static breeze’? » Countdown to Beijing With sensitivities running high among Beijing officials who promised a Green Olympics, including clear skies, any suggestion that the air quality is actually less than clear has caused some hurt feelings among the hosts. It’s a prickly issue,... |
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