Topic: China
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Toilet Tuesday
UK Bus Passengers Aghast at Poo Tidal Wave
Also, a pilot program to give out free toilet paper in China fails miserably.
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Videos
A Ghost City in Angola, Built by the Chinese
Hundreds of apartment buildings, schools and retail units sit empty, priced out of reach for most Angolans.
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Can an Ancient Chinese City Pursue Preservation Without Disney-fication?
One of China’s last walled cities is having an identity crisis.
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Maps
Breadbaskets and Water Hogs
Stark maps highlight inefficiencies in global food production.
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Olympics 2012
Beijing's Olympic Ruins
Already decaying infrastructure from the 2008 Summer Games should serve as a lesson to all cities that follow.
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Photos
China's Air Pollution Problem Explained in One Animation
These before-and-after graphics show just how severe the problem has become.
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Videos
Happy 4th of July! From the World's Premiere Gunpowder Artist
Cai Guo-Qiang transforms fireworks into eardrum-shattering "smoke paintings" in cities across the world.
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Can China Reinvigorate the American Housing Market?
Maybe. But we should be doing that ourselves.
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What's Making China Fat?
Obesity rates have skyrocketed in China over the last generation, at the same time that its cities have exploded. A group of researchers is now trying to pin down the relationship between the two.
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Building Supertall, Superfast
Chinese megabuilding would rise nearly 10 meters a day, way faster than other skyscrapers.
