Pressure mounts on China to tackle smog crisis

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Building sites closed and factories ordered to curb production as Beijing suffers record pollution

China's closely controlled state media has today joined the chorus of calls for the government to take greater action to tackle air pollution, as record levels of smog continued to afflict Beijing and...

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