When it comes to charting China's growing rural-urban divide, can there be any greater yardstick than pollution? In a country beset by environmental problems, we are now finding that as development levels surge ahead in second and top tier cities, t... Read more >

Every Friday we round-up the links that picked up buzz on the internet. Most of them we also shared throughout the week on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Read more >

• Soaring to sinking: How building up is bringing Shanghai down. (Time)
  
  
• US Consulate in Sha...

It's no news that China's air pollution is bad. In fact if this NASA map of PM2.5 levels is anything to go by, Eastern China has it the worst in the entire world. But how come the air pollution in some Chinese cities is simply bad (like Guangzhou) w... Read more >

Last week Greenpeace campaigners in Hong Kong published testing results from some of Hong Kong's biggest supermarkets and found illegal pesticides and mixed pesticide use on many fresh produce samples. With Mainland China a major supplier for the ci... Read more >

Every Friday we round-up the links that picked up buzz on the internet. Most of them we also shared throughout the week on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Read more >

• China's radical blue-sky measures during the 2008 Olympics actually improved Beijingers' c...