Shanghai’s Blood Plasma Scare, Beijing’s Legitimacy
Last week, news broke that HIV antibodies had been detected in 12,229 bottles of a blood...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 11, 2019
Last week, news broke that HIV antibodies had been detected in 12,229 bottles of a blood...
by Josh Rudolph | Dec 1, 2017
After a deadly fire in Beijing on November 18, authorities launched a crackdown on unsafe...
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 30, 2017
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
by Josh Rudolph | Nov 28, 2017
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Samuel Wade | Nov 20, 2017
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 15, 2017
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 25, 2016
At least 14 people were killed and 150 injured in an explosion in Yulin, Shaanxi Province,...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 7, 2015
An explosion at a chemical plant in Lishui, Zhejiang on Monday has continued a string of incidents...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 2, 2015
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 28, 2014
A video from Vox’s Joss Fong explains why the 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Yunnan this month...
by Samuel Wade | May 12, 2014
Global Times’ Fang Yang reports criticism of Nanjing authorities’ decision to keep the...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 26, 2013
Chengguan, or members of China’s various Urban Administrative Law Enforcement Bureaus, have long been known to take a heavy hand in doling out their power on unlicensed street vendors. So far this year, abusive chengguan...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 5, 2013
While baby milk powder is smuggled into China from Hong Kong and around the world due to fears of tainted domestic products, a recent CCTV investigation showed another health hazard for children both in China and abroad. At...
by Melissa M. Chan | Dec 30, 2012
After a bus crash that left 11 schoolchildren dead in Jiangxi, another accident involving an overloaded minibus killed ten people, five of whom were children, from The South China Morning Post: At least 10 people, including five...
by Melissa M. Chan | Dec 18, 2012
Reuters reports an accident at a steel plant in Shanghai has killed two workers and injured 13 others. The plant is owned by Baosteel, one of China’s largest steel companies: Two workers were killed and 13 injured when a...
by Melissa M. Chan | Dec 4, 2012
Chinese state media reports a fire in a clothing factory in Shantou City, Guangdong, killed 14 people, from AP: The Southern Metropolis Daily said in an online report that the victims were all women aged 18-20. It said the cause...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 29, 2012
Earlier this month, $180 million worth of counterfeit pharmaceuticals were seized and nearly 2,000 people were arrested by Chinese authorities, part of an ongoing government pledge to enhance drug safety and crackdown on...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 15, 2012
On Monday, Wuhan was covered in a thick yellow fog as levels of 10-micron particulate matter (PM10) climbed to peaks of over .6 milligrams per cubic metre, four times the national daily average. The cause of the extreme...