Badiucao: Selective Blindness
CDT cartoonist Badiucao comments on a recent viral video in which a woman was hit by a vehicle...
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Minitrue: 39 Missing in Shanxi Explosion
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China Pushes Child Safety Seats to Reduce Death Toll
Bloomberg reports that China’s Ministry of Health will soon launch a national campaign...
Censorship Vault: Car Explodes in Qingdao
Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the...
Word of the Week: Slip
The Word of the Week comes from China Digital Space’s Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms...
Fireworks Truck Explosion Kills Drivers in Henan
Yesterday, a fireworks truck exploded on an expressway bridge in the central province of Henan, leaving at least nine dead. The New York Times reports: A truck laden with fireworks exploded on an elevated expressway in central...
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...
15 Tourists Killed in Bus Crash
Amid concerns about bus safety due to three separate crashes that happened in one day earlier this month, 15 tourists were killed and another 19 were injured in another recent bus crash in Shanxi Province when the bus drove into...
This Week (So Far) In School Bus Crashes
Less than one month after Wen Jiabao pledged to improve school bus services in response to the fatal crash of a nine-seat van packed full of preschool students, the media is full of reports on new accidents. To start with, an...
China PM Responds to Outrage Over School Bus Crash
In response to the bus crash that killed 18 preschool students in Gansu province, China’s Premier Wen Jiabao has vowed to improve bus services using central and local government funds. Reuters reports: The tragedy...
Death Toll Hits 20 in Gansu School Bus Crash
20 people, including 18 preschool students, died Wednesday when a school bus collided with a coal truck in Gansu province, according a local work safety bureau official. From Xinhua News: The accident happened around 9:40 a.m....
Jumper Ignored by Drivers in Chengdu Highway Incident
A video surfaced on Chinese social media sites yesterday showing a woman leaping from a bridge and falling onto a busy highway, where surrounding cars slowed and then drove around her as they passed. Today, Shanghaiist posted...
Protect the Good Samaritan, or Punish the Bad?
As China questions the moral compass of its masses in the aftermath of the horrific hit-and-run death of 2-year old Yue Yue in Foshan, and social and official media discuss the need to create laws to prevent similar negligence...
Drunk Police Officer Crashes Vehicle, Sparks Violence in Henan
Violent protests erupted in central China’s Henan province on Saturday after a drunk police officer lost control of his van and killed at least five people, according to media reports. From AFP: People gathered to protest...
Another Child Dead in Shenzhen Road Tragedy
As much of China still mourns the horrific death of two-year-old Yue Yue and looks for sources of blame in the face of moral negligence, another child was struck and killed by a vehicle in Shenzhen yesterday. From Shanghaiist:...
Witness: Sichuan Driver Killed Child To Reduce Compensation
In the shadow of a Foshan toddler’s death and amid widespread discussion of its causes and implications, Shanghaiist reports a similar incident in Sichuan province. According to one eyewitness, a truck driver accidentally...
Hit-and-Run Tragedy: Which Ideology to Blame?
Many commentators are looking to blame ideology for the inaction of the 18 passers-by who failed to help an injured two-year-old in Foshan. The question is, which ideology is to blame? The Washington Post suggests that...
Toddler Dies in Hit-and-Run Tragedy as Debate Continues
One week after suffering brain damage in a horrific hit-and-run accident, and despite reports earlier this week that she had shown signs of stability, Guangdong hospital officials announced that 2-year-old Yue Yue died early...
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