Signal failure, initially blamed for Tuesday’s Shanghai Metro crash, has now been replaced as prime suspect by power failure (which took down the signals) and poor execution of procedures for subsequently guiding the...
Read MoreOne train on Shanghai Metro’s problem-plagued Line 10 apparently ran into another as it waited at a station. Over 200 were injured, three (update: around 20) seriously, but no fatalities have been reported. Signal failure...
Read MoreShanghai resident Lu Weiming and his wife blame a local waste collection station for their son’s disability and their daughter’s death. South China Morning Post reports the couple’s repeated legal defeats in...
Read MoreThe Guardian goes luxury car shopping with Zheng Huizhong, son of a Henan farmer who has become a successful businessman: “Turning heads with a luxury car is not as easy as it used to be. They are common now. Many people...
Read MoreThe past ten years have seen a surge in obesity rates among Shanghai’s schoolchildren, according to a Global Times report: Obesity among Shanghai schoolchildren has increased 24.4 percent in the last decade, according to a...
Read MoreInvestment banks such as Goldman Sachs are lowering their projected growth for the Chinese economy given the recent monetary tightening policies enacted by the Chinese government in an attempt to curb inflation. From Bloomberg...
Read MoreChina is eager to develop its high-speed rail system and is projected to spend $300 billion by the time these projects finish in 2020. From CNN.com: Creating a rail system in a country of 1.3 billion people guarantees that the...
Read MoreThe Associated Press reports on the apportioning of blame in the aftermath of the Shanghai apartment blaze: Investigators looking into a fire that ravaged a central Shanghai high-rise apartment, killing at least 53 people, said...
Read MoreThe following examples of censorship instructions, issued to the media and/or Internet companies by various central (and sometimes local) government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Chinese journalists and...
Read MoreWu Hao (伍皓), deputy director of the Yunnan Province Propaganda Department, has received a great deal of attention for his controversial efforts to interact online with netizens and give Chinese government policies a kinder,...
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