Shanghai has extended a city-wide lockdown amid the worst COVID-19 outbreak in two years amid growing anger at quarantine rules. With 311 symptomatic and 16,766 asymptomatic cases reported on Tuesday, the megacity of 26 million...
If you or someone you know is in crisis, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 in the United States or find local resources in the International Suicide Prevention Wiki. Li Liqun, a liberal...
Censors have scrubbed a father’s anguished “plea for help,” written in the aftermath of his son’s suicide, from Chinese social media. His son, a 17-year-old Hubei high school student, committed suicide after being forced to work...
The sudden cancellation on Friday of the second hearing in China’s biggest #MeToo case shows just how arduous the legal journey is for women who have been subjected to sexual harassment and exploitation. While Xianzi...
A Chinese student’s fatal fall from a building on Sunday has triggered a public uproar in China, as thousands took to social media to demand a transparent investigation into the boy’s death. Chengdu police had...
A Pinduoduo employee’s suicide, the second work-related death at the company in as many weeks, and an Ele.me courier’s self-immolation have set the Chinese internet ablaze with discussion on labor conditions in the tech sector....
Early this month in Changzhou, Jiangsu, a fifth-grade girl committed suicide at school, stirring a debate about the ethics of pushing political ideology on schoolchildren. The girl, ten-year-old Miao Kexin, is shown on school...
The practice of containing information not approved by the government has long been commonplace in China, and has steadily intensified both in traditional media and online under the leadership of Xi Jinping. Amid a global focus...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
A group of more than ten taxi drivers tried to commit suicide on Saturday by drinking pesticides...
On December 4, China’s first official Constitution Day, six former police officers from...
Taiwanese manufacturing contractor Foxconn—a firm responsible for assembling as much as 40% of...
At Foreign Policy, Alexa Olesen reports on a fresh scandal in the Jiangsu town from which seven...
The Telegraph’s Tom Phillips reports on two separate incidents in which a total of 12...
Under the current one-child policy, families are fined heavily for having an extra child, as in...
At The New York Times, Didi Kirsten Tatlow reports on the story of Wang Guangrong, a father who...
Didi Kirsten Tatlow at The New York Times reports that some elderly people in Anhui have committed...
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