UN chief calls for int'l efforts to achieve "water secure world"
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday called on the international community to work towards a "water secure world" as part of the global ecosystem plan noted in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and post- 2015 agenda.
UN urges global push to realize sanitation goals
A joint United Nations agency report on Monday warned that without a major funding push, some 2.4 billion people -- one-third of the world's population -- will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015.
China pilots trans-provincial eco-compensation scheme
Several provinces in China have established trans-provincial environmental compensation rules, in a bid to solve the difficulty of pipointing sources of watershed pollution that often goes beyond administrative regions.
Aftershocks, supply shortage hinder quake rescue as isolation ends
Continual aftershocks and insufficient relief supplies are hampering the rescue efforts in southwest China's Sichuan, 36 hours after a powerful tremor hit the province.
Postgrad dies after alleged poisoning
A postgraduate student in Shanghai has died more than two weeks after he drank water that was allegedly poisoned by his roommate.
Songkran festival inThailand
An elephant sprays water to a mascot dressed as a ghost during the Songkran festival, Thailand's traditional New Year Festival, in Bangkok, Thailand, April 10,2013.
Nearly 6,000 dead pigs found in Shanghai river
The number of dead pigs fished out of Shanghai's Huangpu River has risen to nearly 6,000.
