At Least Eleven People Killed in a Bus Crash in China
Eleven people died in a bus crash after the vehicle fell off a highway bridge in north-eastern China.
GSK’s Viiv Arm Agrees China Tie-up to Produce HIV Drugs
GlaxoSmithKline signs a deal to manufacture cut-price HIV drugs in China as the UK group rebuilds its presence after a corruption scandal.
A Scientific Ethical Divide Between China and West
Experts worry that medical researchers in China are stepping over ethical boundaries.
Episode 36 – Sim Chi Yin
Sharron Lovell speaks with Sim Chi Yin about crossing the lines between journalism and advocacy. Chi Yin recently published her four year story following a Chinese gold miner suffering with the lung disease silicosis, caused by years of inhaling...
100,000 Tons of Smuggled Meat, Some From 1970s, Seized Across China
Smuggled frozen meat has been seized across China, some of it more than 40 years old and valued at up to $483 million.
China’s Annual Dog-Eating Festival Prompts Social Media Firestorm
At a solstice festival in China 10,000 canines are said to be beaten, killed and cooked for human consumption.
A Miner’s China Dream
Over the four years I have known him, He Quangui, a gold miner from Shaanxi, has told me many times he wants to travel with me back to Beijing. It’s not just me he wants to visit. He dreams of going to the Chinese leadership’s compound,...
China Issues White Paper on Human Rights
China has made "tremendous achievements" on the "the correct path of human rights development that suits its national conditions."
China Uses Drones to Monitor Pollution Problems from Above
China’s environmental regulators want to increase the use of drones watching pollution levels, supplementing the existing monitoring system.
In the central city of Wuhan, drones were sent to urban areas to inspect emissions from chimneys...
Q. and A.: Luo Yufeng, a.k.a. Sister Feng, on Life as a Manicurist in New York
Sister Feng, whose real name is Luo Yufeng, is an Internet celebrity with more than 4.7 million followers on Sina Weibo
Dying to Breathe
This is the unseen cost of gold mining in China—the world’s top gold producer. In China, silicosis is considered a form of pneumoconiosis, which affects an estimated six million workers who toil in gold, coal, or silver mines or in stone-cutting...
Dying to Breathe—A Short Film Shows China’s True Cost of Gold
This is the unseen cost of gold mining in China—the world’s top gold producer. In China, silicosis is considered a form of pneumoconiosis, which affects an estimated six million workers who toil in gold, coal, or silver mines or in stone-cutting...
U.S. Military Proposes Challenge to China Sea Claims
Moves would send Navy planes, ships near artificial islands built by China in contested waters.
Fatal Police Shooting Under Investigation: Ministry
There are clear rules on the carrying and use of fire arms by police officers, and it will take time to confirm whether police had opened fire legally in the case.
It’s Time to Fix China’s Food Safety Conundrum
from chinadialogueFood safety scandals have become so common in China that people are losing confidence in what they eat. The government has consistently emphasised the need for better regulation of the food industry, and it’s established an inter-ministerial...
‘Blue Sky’ App Gets China’s Public Thinking About Pollution Solutions
from chinadialogueThe Blue Sky Map app, which was officially launched April 28 by the Institute of...
An American Hero in China
from New York Review of BooksOne night in September, three hundred people crowded into the basement auditorium of an office tower in Beijing to hear a discussion between two of China’s most popular writers. One was Liu Yu, a thirty-eight-year-old political...
China Shocks World by Genetically Engineering Human Embryos
Critics warn China's the ‘Wild West’ of genetic research, on its way to desiging children.
China’s New Ad Ban?
China is considering a ban on advertisements for infant milk formula in a bid to tackle low levels of breast feeding.
‘Masturbation Will Lead to Homosexuality’: China’s LGBT Sex-Ed Problem in Chinese
In a country where sex and sexuality remain taboo topics of discussion, such misinformation remains common.
Can Fracking Green China’s Growth?
This paper analyses the best available technical, scientific, and engineering literature on the risks and opportunities posed by shale gas, and also what policy environment could maximise the opportunity and minimise the risk. It also analyses...
China Court to Hear NGO Lawsuit Targeting Polluter’s Profits
from chinadialogueAn environmental group has filed a lawsuit for 30 million yuan (U.S.$4.8 million) to seek compensation from a Shandong chemical company for pumping out harmful substances—a legal action thought to be the first public interest litigation for air...
China Has Its Own Anti-Vaxxers—Blame the Internet
While health officials in the United States and parts of Europe wrestle with a growing anti-vaccination, or “anti-vaxxer” movement, China is dealing with a less organized but similarly serious fear of immunizations. Social media reveals traces of...
China’s ‘Comfort Women’
Thousands of Chinese women were forced into sex slavery during the second world war. Here is one survivor’s story.
Chinese High School Students Riot Over Mass Food Poisoning
Thousands of disgruntled students smashed up their high school campus in Guizhou in the early hours of March 20 .
Dark Days for Women in China?
With China’s recent criminal detention of five feminist activists, gender inequality in China is back in the spotlight. What does a crackdown on Chinese women fighting for equal representation say about the current state of the nation’s political...
China’s Polluted Soil and Water Will Drive up World Food Prices
from chinadialogueChina’s push for more intense farming has kept its city dwellers well-fed and helped lift millions of rural workers out of poverty. But it has come at a cost. Ecosystems in what should be one of the country’s most fertile regions have already...
China’s Real Inconvenient Truth: Its Class Divide
China is talking about its pollution problem, but its equally serious class problem remains obscured behind the...
China’s Real Inconvenient Truth: Its Class Divide
Solving China's air and water pollution will require addressing the gap between rich urbanites and rural peasants.
China’s BIG Gamble in the TINY Comoros Islands
Comoros is a tiny archipelago nation off the east coast of Africa in the Indian ocean where a major Chinese experiment is underway. Chinese...
China’s Long March To Safe Drinking Water
China’s central government set ambitious goals to safeguard water quality in 2011, at the outset of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015). Those goals targeted improvements from source-to-tap, earmarking a budget of nearly RMB 700 billion (U.S.$112...
Chinese Babies Should be Trained to Play Football—President Xi
Beijing has approved the country's "football reform plan," and says being good at soccer is the "ardent wish of the whole nation."
Parent Meddling Makes for Unmerry Marriages in China
"Parental matchmaking is robustly correlated with lower marital harmony,” says a new World Bank report.
The People’s Republic of Chemicals
Maverick environmental writers William J. Kelly and Chip Jacobs follow up their acclaimed Smogtown with a provocative examination of China’s ecological calamity already imperiling a warming planet. Toxic smog most people figured was obsolete needlessly kills as many as died in the 9/11 attacks every day, while sometimes Grand Canyon-sized drifts of industrial particles aloft on the winds rain down ozone and waterway-poisoning mercury in America.
Why Chinese Promote Confining New Mothers for a Month
HONG KONG—Giving birth is never easy, but for new Chinese mothers the month following a baby’s arrival is particularly fraught. Immediately after I became pregnant for the first time, I started to hear about zuoyuezi, or “sitting the...
Vets Battle to save Stricken Panda in Shaanxi
Vets are racing to treat a 5-year-old panda diagnosed with canine distemper at the Shaanxi Rare Wildlife Rescue and Breeding Research Center.
China Reports Sharp Rise in HIV Cases
China had nearly half a million people living with the virus or disease by the end of August last year, with 70,000 of them newly diagnosed in the first eight months of 2014, official statistics showed.
Eating Alone in China
The first time I ate at a restaurant by myself, I live-tweeted the experience. “Hot-potting alone!” I enthused, posting a photo I’d taken of a burbling electric pot, ringed by plates of enoki mushrooms, plump squares of tofu, and green-bean-...
Baby Hatch Programs Struggle to Cope With Number of Infants With Birth Defects
Giving birth to her first baby granted Zheng Yuling no happiness, but instead brought pain and sadness. The seriously ill girl died hours after birth, and Zheng's husband, Chen Dafu, was arrested on suspicion he abandoned the newborn.
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China Might Be Killing Off a Pikachu-Like Animal For No Reason
The animated yellow rodent-like character, Pikachu, from the Pokémon video game and TV franchise, is not a total work of fiction. In fact, many believe the creature is based off of a small mousey animal found in China known as a pika.
Stampede Highlights China’s Reliance on Outsourcing Security
A week after the tragedy, authorities have yet to provide an official explanation for what went wrong.
Falling Through the Cracks of China’s Health-Care System
China says 95% of its 1.34 billion people are covered by medical insurance. That should have included Zhao Guomei, whose struggle with a rare but treatable disease shows how the system is failing for millions of China’s workers.
Myanmar Returns to What Sells: Heroin
A decade ago, Myanmar seemed on course to wipe out the opium fields and...
Here’s Where All Those Cheap Santa Hats and Plastic Snowmen Come from
The Chinese city of Yiwu, about 250 kilometers from Shanghai, is often referred to as China’s “Christmas village” thanks to the massive amount of holiday-related merchandise made there. Xinhua, China’s state-news agency, claims that 60% of the...
In China, Expectant Dads Line Up to Experience Labor Pains
He described the treatment as creating a three-part sensation: hot steel balls dropping on his stomach and then a hook being gouged into him, followed by the ripping of his innards. “I treated her to a French dinner after,” says Mr. Li.
China: Inside an Internet Gaming Disorder Rehab Center
There are about 113,000 Internet cafes and bars in China, according to official figures. Lower-end establishments are typically a sole means of accessing the Web for China’s migrant labor population and the poor—or at 24-hour locations, a place...
Environmental Filmmakers Have Rare Impact in China
One clip shows a girl swatting flies from a younger child among piles of trash. Another has children blowing up used medical gloves like balloons. The footage is on the computer screen of Wang Jiuliang as he edits his second film about waste...
Shunyi Foreign Foster Parent of 11 Disappears, Critically Ill Child at Hospital
The Legal Daily reported Thursday that the girl, called Phoebe, is one of 11 ethnic Chinese foster children the man has been raising in various apartments around Beijing, most recently at Capital Paradise in Shunyi.
China to Expand Input to Fight HIV: Premier
Noting that China still boasts low HIV rates, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the government must assume the principle role in combating HIV and would continue to increase input on its prevention and treatment.
The People’s Republic of Chemicals
from chinadialogueThe name of China is almost obscured by a grey smudge on the title page of The People’s Republic of Chemicals,...
Despite Persecution, Guardian of Lake Tai Spotlights China’s Polluters
ZHOUTIE, China — By autumn, the stench of Lake Tai and the freakish green glow of its waters usually fade with the ebbing of the summer heat, but this year is different. Standing on a concrete embankment overlooking a fetid, floating array of...
China’s Regulations on Sale of Birth By-product in Chaos
In a cramped, quiet room, several bloody placentas sit in a machine, drying. Some workers then ground them down and filled capsules with the viscera. This gory scene is not from a horror movie but the day-to-day business of an underground...