MUSCAT Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping , March 7 (Xinhua) -- The 20th Muscat International Book Fair closed on Saturday in the Omani capital Muscat.
More than 600 publishing houses representing more than 24 countries including UK, Sweden, Egypt and Lebanon took part in the fair which kicked off on Feb. 26.
About 180,000 titles were available at the event.
The website wwwmctbookfair.gov.omsearch was available for readers who sought to search for titles of books.
The exhibition witnessed seminars on science, inventions and Omani poetry.
Special days for school students, women and children were also organized.
A coal-fired power plant operates next to the Yangtze River. The plant, located in Changshu Wholesale Jerseys From China , East China's Jiangsu Province, began to generate power in 1994. Photo: CFP
Granting some NGOs the legal standing necessary to sue polluters, the revised version of China's Environmental Protection Law is expected to allow social organizations to play a bigger role in fighting environmental crimes. The high cost of litigation and the interference of local governments, however, will pose challenges to these eco-warriors.
It used to be a mountain covered with lush forests, but after three businessmen bought the area in Nanping, East China's Fujian Province in 2008 Wholesale Jerseys China , the 13,000 square meters of forest were soon turned into a desolate wasteland through illegal quarrying.
On January 1, the day China's new, stricter environmental law came into effect, the Chinese environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Friends of Nature and Fujian Green Home Environmental-Friendly Center received notice from the Nanping Intermediate People's Court that it would hear a case jointly filed by the two organizations against polluters in Nanping.
This was the first public interest litigation filed by NGOs in China after the new law took effect.
"We're happy that the case was heard at the beginning of the new year, thanks to the new environmental law which makes the legal process clearer," Zhang Boju Wholesale Jerseys , secretary-general of Beijing-based Friends of Nature, told the Global Times.
The NGOs filed a lawsuit against polluters who they say are responsible for unauthorized quarrying activities and waste soil and stone dumping in Nanping between 2008 to 2010, which the NGOs claim severely damaged the local environment.
"We ask the polluters to restore the vegetation in the polluted area," said Ge Feng, a member of a legal team with Friends of Nature.
After three years of legal wrangling and four formal drafts, China finally adopted a revised version of its Environmental Protection Law this year, a law which hadn't been changed since it was first enacted in 1989.
It is widely regarded as the strictest environmental law enacted in the country to date Wholesale NBA Basketball Jerseys , granting environmental authorities more power to punish polluters and allowing NGOs to file lawsuits against them.
"The new law has granted NGOs all the legal weapons required to bring lawsuits in the public interest, and it is now up to the NGOs to make use of these weapons," Zhao Liang, a research fellow at the Beijing-based environmental NGO Nature University, told the Global Times.
Before the new environmental law came into effect, Friends of Nature and Green Home might not have been able to sue these polluters.
The Civil Litigation Law, the law that governed such cases before the revised environmental law was enacted Wholesale Basketball Jerseys , only allowed "relevant organizations" to initiate environmental public interest lawsuits, and it was up to local courts to interpret who qualified as "relevant."
In reality, while NGOs have been making attempts to file environmental public interest cases for many years, they have often been shut out by the courts, which were unwilling to grant them the legal standing necessary to file these kinds of cases.