China

Social problem 09/25/22, 09:35

Chinese social media star Austin Li finally returned to the screen on September 20 after suddenly disappearing about three months ago. Without any advanced notice, his live-streaming section on Alibaba’s Taobao platform began at 7 p.m.  It was like the flamboyant Li had never left. That session garnered massive attention in ...

Insights 09/25/22, 08:39

According to Nikkei Asia on September 20, many emerging or developing countries in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are suffering terribly from an economic downturn caused by the COVID pandemic, surging interest rates, and rising food and energy prices. Therefore, Beijing will likely face more problem loans from these ...

Social problem 09/25/22, 08:36

Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, has been in lockdown for more than a month, making life very hard for the people there. However, the pandemic has not stopped. A resident said the government put people under centralized isolation in a large area. The isolated environment was in poor conditions, and ...

Economy 09/25/22, 08:33

According to Reuters, China’s coal import from Russia in August surged to the highest level in five years due to extreme heat waves to meet soaring power demand. Reuters cited data from China’s General Administration of Customs released on Tuesday, showing that China imported 8.54 million tonnes of Russian coal last ...

Social problem 09/25/22, 08:30

According to The Guardian, the United Kingdom is reaching out to Taiwanese for Mandarin-related lessons on its soil.  A bipartisan group of Members of Parliament (MPs) is contacting Taiwan for Mandarin-speaking teachers to participate in the country’s education. It is part of a plan to uproot the controversial Confucius Institutes, funded and ...

Disasters 09/25/22, 08:26

According to the South China Morning Post, top Chinese epidemiologist Wu Zunyou has changed his advice about monkeypox after online backlash for being "racist and discriminatory" on his first health advice over the disease. Wu revised his advice on Monday, urging people to avoid "intimate direct skin-to-skin contact" with foreigners or ...

Social problem 09/25/22, 08:24

A sincere introduction by Prof. Hu Jinniu from the School of Physical Sciences of Nankai University has recently attracted attention in academic circles and quickly became a hot search. The personal introduction on the homepage of his academy's official website seems to have the power of its own to reveal hard ...

Insights 09/25/22, 08:20

Leading up to the eve of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), many corruption cases of powerful officials have been exposed. On September 19, the website of the China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection reported that Li Jiexiang , a former member of the Qinghai Provincial Party ...

Insights 09/25/22, 08:14

Bitter Winter reported that a court in China recently sentenced Wang Xinmin, 73, a Falun Gong practitioner, to four and a half years in prison.  Wang used to work as a senior agronomist at Heilongjiang Tobacco Research Institute. In the 1990s, he became a Falun Gong practitioner.  On October 22, 2003, Chinese ...

Social problem 09/25/22, 08:11

Recently, a company in southeastern China has been accused of installing surveillance cameras in toilet cubicles. This ruse is to catch workers breaking the company’s no-smoking policy. According to the South China Morning Post, after receiving severe backlash, the subsidiary of state-owned battery manufacturer, China Aviation Lithium Battery, in Xiamen, Fujian ...

Insights 09/25/22, 08:09

The Chinese mainland's market for second-hand homes is slow. A netizen recently told of buying a house in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Zhejiang province's capital is one of China's most expensive cities. After looking at more than 100 apartments in two months, he finally placed an order and signed a contract.  Some real ...

Social problem 09/25/22, 08:07

China's administration is concerned the country may soon have a demographic catastrophe as more young people choose to stay single and don't want to have children. To solve the problem, the authorities of this country have continuously introduced measures to encourage birth. However, the situation is still going on. It shows ...

Social problem 09/25/22, 08:05

Officials said they had completed the advance payment to victims of the bank scams in Henan. However, some depositors were classified as illegally fundraising and could not get their money. In September, an elderley couple who were poor and sick wrote a note not wanting to live anymore. A couple said ...

Human Rights 09/25/22, 07:57

According to multiple media, Hong Kong could soon stop mandating hotel quarantines for foreign visitors.  South China Morning Post reports from sources that incoming travelers may only be required to monitor their health for at least seven days. At the moment, they are subject to a three-day hotel quarantine, plus four ...

Insights 09/25/22, 07:56

Recently, the Ecological Environment Bureau posted on Weibo that a chemical company in Henan emitted an unpleasant odor, causing nearby villagers to vomit. The case caught people’s attention, and one of the comments claimed that the plant’s infrastructure had long degraded. On September 18, the bureau revealed the latest investigation on ...

Morality 09/25/22, 07:53

On September 18, Jacob Lavee, the former President of the Israel Transplantation Society, commented on the new policy of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) that prohibits the publication of any research papers on organ transplantation from China.  In June, the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation ...