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...
public safety
Translation: “Beijing’s Cold Winds Are Behind You”
After a deadly fire in Beijing on November 18, authorities launched a crackdown on unsafe...
Sensitive Word of the Week: Low-end Population
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Minitrue: Control Coverage, Commentary on Evictions
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Minitrue: Follow Official Media on Beijing Fire
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Minitrue: Watch Sources on School Blast [Updated]
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Reports on Shaanxi Explosion Disappear Online, in Media
At least 14 people were killed and 150 injured in an explosion in Yulin, Shaanxi Province,...
Explosion at Chemical Plant in Zhejiang
An explosion at a chemical plant in Lishui, Zhejiang on Monday has continued a string of incidents...
Minitrue: Urgent Notice on the Shanghai Stampede
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
What a Strong Earthquake Does in China vs. the U.S.
A video from Vox’s Joss Fong explains why the 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Yunnan this month...
Secrecy Over Radioactive Material Loss Under Attack
Global Times’ Fang Yang reports criticism of Nanjing authorities’ decision to keep the...
China’s Chengguan Caught in a Vicious Cycle
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...
CCTV Finds Toys Still Made from Medical Waste
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...
Minibus Accident Leaves 10 Dead, 10 Injured
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...
Steel Plant Accident Kills 2, Injures 13
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...
Arson Suspect Arrested After Fatal Factory Fire
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...
China’s Battle For Drug Safety
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...
Wuhan’s Yellow Smoke Shows Public Mistrust
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...
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