Jennifer Duggan

Chi­nese au­thor­i­ties scram­ble to cut off in­for­ma­tion on Hong Kong protests from reach­ing the main­land.

Chi­na aims to ex­pand its in­flu­ence in the re­source rich area.

Sci­en­tists are scram­bling to find the ori­gins of new H7N9 strain that has killed more than 20 and con­tin­ues to spread.

Thou­sands of de­cay­ing pig car­cass­es have been scooped out of rivers, with the mys­tery set­ting off con­sumer con­cerns.

For the first time, gov­ern­ment re­port high­lights chem­i­cal pol­lu­tion and the ex­is­tence of re­lat­ed “can­cer vil­lages”.

Con­sid­ered the largest mass mi­gra­tion on earth, mil­lions of Chi­nese are re­turn­ing to their vil­lages for the New Year.

A lack of of­fi­cial data and pub­lic con­cern over air pol­lu­tant lev­els have led cit­i­zen sta­tis­ti­cians to take ac­tion.

Al­though sta­tis­tics are sketchy, the chasm be­tween rich and poor seems to have widened in Chi­na.

The eco­nom­ic gi­ant’s hunger for tim­ber re­port­ed­ly caus­es il­le­gal de­struc­tion of forests need­ed to stop glob­al warm­ing.

Ac­tivists sug­gest on­line con­trol in­ten­si­fied dur­ing key Com­mu­nist Par­ty meet­ing.