Lunar New Year is China’s most important annual holiday
Each year is named after one of the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac in a repeating cycle, this year being the Year of the Rabbit. For the past three years, the celebrations were canceled in the shadow of controversial restrictions encompassed by the Zero-COVID policy. That's why this Sunday, January 22, ...
China rushes to manufacture drugs, fearing massive rural outbreaks
Stocks of fever and cold medicines began to run low in China in early December as millions fell ill with COVID. The abrupt relaxation of confinements has sparked a desperate race for medicines to palliate the symptoms of the virus as people fend off the disease on their own. Many have been ...
A dreary Christmas season covers every corner of China
Christmas has come and gone, but the echo still lingers. For many people, this is the first real Christmas after more than two years of fighting for freedom with COVID. Everyone is looking forward to a happy new year. However, people don't even dare to talk about Christmas in China. There ...
Stock price of China’s biggest funeral operator rises to record high as COVID fatalities surge
According to CNBC, the stock price of China's biggest cemetery operator and funeral service surged to the highest level in over a year as funeral homes and crematoriums across China are busy and packed full of corpses. As the Chinese regime abruptly abandoned its controversial zero-COVID policy, the virus now sweeps ...
Chinese Traditional Medicines continuously break record highs
Recently, the capital of Zhejiang province officially acknowledged that the number of positive COVID patients is up to 1 million daily cases. The wave of illness caused by a new variant of Omicron in China has caused countries worldwide to take notice. In the face of a rapidly developing illness and ...
Beauty salon president sentenced to 16 years for fundraising fraud
Recently, the Tongzhou District People's Court of Nantong City charged the defendant, Nantong Fuyuan Beauty Salon Chain Co., Ltd., for fraud. According to the court, Fuyuan Company and related people raised illegal deposits. From February 2013 to March 2019, Fuyuan Company engaged in the illegal collection of public deposits and fund-raising fraud ...
Funeral parlors in Guangzhou and Chongqing are full; false data delays decision-making
Recently, the pandemic has broken out in various parts of China, and the death toll has risen sharply. The number of patients who passed away has been increasing. Funeral homes in Guangzhou were full, and people were selling places in the queue. Someone in a funeral home in Guangzhou was found to ...
‘The ICU is full’: China’s surge in COVID cases overwhelms hospitals
Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein has worked in emergency medicine for over three decades. However, Bernstein has never experienced anything like the current situation. He told Reuters that patients’ visits at his hospital are increasing. Most of them are elderly, with many having symptoms of COVID and pneumonia. This wave of COVID infection ...
Fast-spread of COVID outbreaks cause blood shortages across China
Blood shortage has recently been reported across multiple provinces and cities in China, as blood donations declined sharply amid the fast-spreading COVID outbreak and the protracted cold weather. As a result, local authorities urged people to donate more blood. Bloomberg News cited a China National Radio report that the Blood Centre ...
Africa: New destination for Chinese graduates
Many new graduates in China are choosing Africa as their career destination because more opportunities are available. Although there are no official statistics on graduates moving to Africa to work, this topic is attracting high interest among young Chinese amid the current record-high unemployment rate. China's youth unemployment rate has risen ...
The COVID Tsunami is putting additional strain on China’s economy
Bloomberg reports that the large COVID-19 epidemic that swept the nation in December contributed to a further slowdown in China's economy. To get the picture, the media cites China's top health authority as saying that 37 million people in China may have been infected with COVID-19 on a single day this ...
Target recalls over 200,000 made-in-China weighted blankets after 2 children die
Retail giant Target is recalling more than 200,000 weighted blankets that caused two young children's death by suffocation earlier this year. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Target Corporation, the recall revolves around 204,000 Pillowfort Weighted Blankets made from China, which have been sold exclusively by Target ...
95-year-old grandmother’s shocking conception of marriage: For love or money?
A Chinese woman’s video asking her 95-year-old grandmother if a woman should marry for love or money goes viral. An unnamed woman from Guangxi province asked her 95-year-old grandmother if a woman should marry for love or money. The grandmother replied, “Just marry the one you love.” The granddaughter was surprised because ...
Analysts: China’s economy is having difficulty recovering due to latest pandemic wave
China suddenly loosened its pandemic policy in November. This caused a massive wave of infections. Optimism about reopening is fading. Analysts believe that China still has a long way to go before returning to its normal state before the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Baidu data, traffic density and congestion during rush ...
Young Chinese today: No house, little money, and afraid to get married
Communications officer Liu Maomao shared that she has a special contact list on the messaging apps QQ and WeChat. This a group of more than a dozen blind dates since last year. But she was not at all interested in it. She said she’s no longer “in the mood for ...
TikTok admits spying using IP addresses of multiple journalists
An internal email has divulged that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance was using its viral app to track U.S. and British media journalists. They included three Forbes reporters who formerly worked for BuzzFeed: Emily Baker-White, Katharine Schwab, Richard Nievam, and Financial Times reporter Cristina Criddle. Baker-White and Criddle have been in charge ...
