Xinhua reports that a total of eleven officials have now been detained in connection with the Jilin poultry plant fire that killed 121 people last month: The Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) said four persons allegedly...
Read MoreEnvironmental groups have attacked the impact assessment report for a planned PX plant near Kunming, published late last month following major protests against the project. The report deemed risks from the plant...
Read MoreSaturday’s crash of a Boeing 777 at San Francisco International Airport had two fatalities, both of whom were high school students from Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province. The girls were planning to study English in a camp in...
Read MoreFollowing a series of Swiss companies under scrutiny in China, Tetra Pak, a food packaging company, is under investigation for its business practices. The New York Times’ David Barboza reports that the State...
Read MoreAl Jazeera English premiers a four-part documentary series, Wukan: After the Uprising, taking an in-depth look at the village’s experience of grassroots democracy following protests over illegal government land grabs in...
Read MoreIn his last Letter from China “for a while” at The New Yorker, Evan Osnos describes his fascination with the billion-plus individual stories making up that of China as a whole. One of them, he writes, belongs to Qi...
Read MoreOn June 28th, Zhejiang’s Ci’en temple offered laymen a chance to join its eight Buddhist monks for between three months and two years. In the past, fewer than ten people have responded each year, but over the past...
Read MoreOf the growing number of migrant workers affected by pneumoconiosis, Echo Hui reports, only a few manage to get compensation as authorities turn a blind eye to occupational health and workers’ rights. From South China...
Read MoreChoi Chi-yuk reports from Urumqi ahead of the anniversary on Friday of riots in 2009, in which at least 197 people were killed. With Mandy Zuo at South China Morning Post: A bus stop has been built on the Jiefang South Road...
Read MoreAt Daily Life, Monica Tan tells of her experience alongside scores of China’s “leftover women” (剩女)—the ranks of successful women in China who choose to remain single amid societal pressure and a skewed sex...
Read MoreThe New York Times reports on this year’s summer algal bloom in the Yellow Sea, and the Qingdao tourists who seem to be enjoying the colorful shoreline: In what has become an annual summer scourge, the coastal Chinese city...
Read MoreThe People’s Daily reports that China approved the creation of a special free trade zone in Shanghai: The project, occupying 28 square kilometers, will center around the Yangshan Deep Water Port and will take more than 10...
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