WuMaoDang (0.5 RMB Party) is Chinese vocabulary for Internet commentators Or Wu Mao (something of 50-cent in English) Internet commentators, people hired to post comments favorable towards the government policies in an attempt to shape…
Category: Society
China will be experiencing an explosion in its population of senior citizens over the next 20 years; they are the progeny of the pre-family planning era. In 2010, about 115 million people in China…
New express bus saves time, but motorists say roads affected Passengers who rode the new non-stop bus from Tongzhou district to downtown Beijing shaved 10 minutes off their commute on Tuesday, according to transport managers….
BEIJING – A building on the campus of Tsinghua University, one of China’s elite colleges, took on the name of a popular clothing company on Monday, giving rise to much debate among students. Workers on…
A leading charity organization has moved to stop around $1.3 billion in disease control funding from going to a Chinese agency, blaming the recipient of mishandling the money and of a lack of transparency. The…
A group of protestors from SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour) demonstrate outside the Foxconn annual general meeting (AGM) in Hong Kong on May 18, 2011. Foxconn is the trade name for Taiwan’s Hon…
It all began with a television report showing the hardships endured by students in an impoverished county in Guizhou Province, which moved 35-year-old Liang Shuxin so deeply that he decided to launch an online donation…
The series of crises concerning food safety in China have led to the most dramatic episode so far. In Jiangsu Province, a wave of watermelon explosions shocked farmers that are facing serious economic losses. Some…
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has halted payments for programmes in China amid mismanagement by a public agency, a spokesman said on Monday. “In May, we froze all disbursements in…
From China’s strategic pork reserve to a future where insects are the new white meat, 10 reasons we really are what we eat. They say you are what you eat. And that applies to countries…