by Angel Hsu | Mar 6, 2016 | Air quality, Big Data, China, Data
When it comes to our most pressing environmental challenges, much of the data needed to take effective action are missing. Water quality, recycling rates, toxic chemical exposures, land degradation – assessing these environmental issues is hampered by the lack of...
by Angel Hsu | Oct 9, 2015 | Air quality, Data, Featured
This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Beijing, the most liveable city in China? “The best joke all year,” said Weibo user Ren Fei. Not intended as a joke, Beijing emerged as the most liveable Chinese city in the Economist Intelligence Unit...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 22, 2012 | Sights
On Saturday, we were stranded in Xi’an due to “the heaviest rain in six decades” to hit Beijing. In some places, rain was as high as 4 meters, and 37 people were killed. It is extremely fortuitous that I made a last-minute decision to cancel our...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 16, 2012 | Sights
Outside my apartment in Beijing, residents of a neighboring building have taken to the streets to protest the management’s decision to shut off power and hot water for the day. Apparently there was a disagreement between the previous and current management that...
by Angel Hsu | Jul 10, 2012 | Sights
Last Saturday, I attended a talk that featured Joy Chen, an Asian-American woman who was the former Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles. It was interesting that she wrote a book for Chinese women, “Don’t marry before you’re 30,” that supposedly tells...
