Taking in the pristine Borneo Rain Forest is unfortunately very much an endangered experience. The promise of quick profits from cutting it down and selling the wood has outweighed the international calls for preservation. That is in most areas except the small state of Brunei. The oil rich sultanate has been busy extracting it’s natural resources from under the ground leaving the forests above untouched. D J Clark went to investigate.

More than 2.5 million people, 41 percent of Ningxia's population, are living in the region's southern mountainous area, which the United Nations listed as one of the most uninhabitable places in 1970 due to its extreme environment. The government, which brings a considerable amount of aid to the area every year, identifies more than 1 million residents as being below the poverty line.

Local people and the government, however, are looking for a sustainable way of to draw the local people out of the poverty trap.

China Daily's Peng Yinning went to investigate.

Following announcements from Beijing and Shaanxi on contingency plans for heavily polluted days, China Daily reporter D J Clark sets out to investigate what he can do to protect his family at home.

Nestled on the Hunan Guizhou border, Fenghuang is a small but beautiful city deep in the Tuo Jiang River valley. For one week in December it hosted the biannual Phoenix photography festival with 160 exhibitions showing over 300 photographers and 6,000 photographs. D J Clark went down to Hunan to investigate.

Freelance photographer and writer Cecilia Chen has visited both the north and south poles and have been surprised at the growing number of Chinese tourists she found there. In this short video Cecilia talks about her visits to the poles and why she feels they are worth the effort in getting there.

Follow Cecilia now as she makes her way to the north pole at http://blog.sina.com.cn/cecilia or follow her on Weibo: http://weibo.com/cecilia

Keywords: video, China, Artic, Antarctic, pole, cold, snow, landscape, photographer, tourists, Chinese

Video by D J Clark

Photography by Cecilia Chen and supplied by Souluniq International Travel Club, Guangzhou.

Zhang Lian was born and brought up on a small rural farm in Ningxia Hui Autonomous region. Tired of farming he left his village to start a new career writing poems, first in hand written books and then later in printed volumes. To sustain his creative lifestyle he peddles his books around the local county towns, going door to door selling his poems.

Local village imam, Yang Yinping from Sha Tupo village in Ningxia province, China, explains why halal food is important for the Hui community. Yang is expanding his animal husbandry business to accommodate a growing demand for halal food but claims that some food labelled ‘halal’ in China does not meet the standards Islam demands.

This video traces Bhushan Tuladhar a recycle enthusiast who has turned his home in the suburbs of Kathmandu into an example of how individuals can make a real difference to their environment.

The first in a new series on “Reacting to Climate Change – Stories from Asia” this video traces green architect Clifford Espinosa in his quest to cool down the 16th century Malate parish church in Manila without using air conditioning.

Angelique Songco, a dive master and director of the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, the largest marine park in the Philippines, is intensely feeling the effects of global warming and combating it with a variety of measures.