Real Time Air Pollution Map

Tokyo and Beijing have agreed to promote technical cooperation and explore further measures for dealing with the harmful air pollution drifting to Japan from China, a government official said.

Smog from Space

Taken by the Suomi NPP satellite, the image above shows a titanic cloak of smog that had settled over China.

China's Growing Drug Appetite

The country's economy has exploded over the past quarter-century. And so has the market for narcotics whose use was once virtually unheard of.

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