A photo of a hardworking grassroots official in Yunnan province drew attention online over the weekend because it showed him with grey hair－which was surprising at age 38. Li Zhongkai is Party chief of an impoverished village in Dayao county, Chuxiong Yi autonomous prefecture, where he has been working in poverty relief for six years....
BEIJING – China’s foreign ministry said on Sunday (Nov 18) that no developing country would fall into a debt trap simply because of its co-operation with Beijing. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the comment in an online statement responding to remarks made by US Vice-President Mike Pence. “No developing country will fall into...
BEIJING – China is raising the cash rewards paid to citizens for reporting pornographic and “illegal” publications to authorities, government regulators said Friday (Nov 16). Starting December 1, people can rake in up to 600,000 yuan (S$118,000) for reporting illegal content, online or otherwise, double the 300,000 yuan under previous guidelines. What counts as “illegal”...
How far would you go to spite your lover? One woman in China decided that jumping onto a train track was a wise move to win an argument with her boyfriend. What she did not know was that a high-speed train was pulling into the station when she pulled the stunt. Luckily for her, based...
In China, technology to delay children is restricted to people who are married Freezing human eggs has become a trendy term as news spreads about an employee of Ctrip who obtained the procedure in the United States during the National Day holiday. Ctrip covered most of the cost. Since summer, the online travel service has...
In response to a viral video exposing shoddy cleaning practices at 14 luxury hotels, health departments in Shanghai and Beijing, where most of the disgraced hotels were located, dispatched inspection teams on Thursday to take a closer look. Health officials in Beijing’s Dongcheng, Haidian and Chaoyang districts collected samples from four of the hotels shown...
BEIJING – A rural Chinese government official who did not respond to telephone calls from an anti-graft inspection team while he was in the shower one evening has been reprimanded, state media said on Thursday. The inspection team in the eastern province of Anhui called the rural roads official on his mobile telephone four times between...
The past few decades have seen China take on a huge upswing in terms of infrastructure and global trade. The Asian country has seen years of industrialization and as a result of all the development work, the environmental challenges it has been facing have also reached a critical point. The factories and industries that been...
The inclusion of A-shares by the MSCI Inc. in the index it has for influential stock markets is opening the door to the possibility of steering RMB400 billion of foreign inflows into the China A-share market over the next decade. While it makes for a very good reason why the Chinese stock market is an...
Over the years, the China investment universe has greatly expanded. From being a manufacturing-driven economy to a consumer-led one, the investment opportunities are rapidly increasing in China. This change has also been lead by the open policies of the Chinese government that promote investments from around the globe and direct them to its own capital...