‘Wizard arrested for raping Buddhist’
The top front page headline of Beijing Evening News today concerns tightening of food safety regulations. The photo shows soccer boss Nan Yong being led away ‘wearing prisoner uniform number 087′. Nan...
View ArticleHospital appointment scalpers will face consequences
The front page of the Beijing Morning Post today features the headline, “Hospital appointment scalpers will face the consequences.” Chinese hospitals require patients to wait in line to make am...
View ArticleWang Yang says its not the Party’s role to bestow happiness on the people
The Southern Metropolis Daily is a Guangdong-based newspaper with a big print circulation in its home province, and a wide national audience online. The front page headline today is: “At the Party...
View ArticleChina’s hospitals up security in the face of rising patient-to-doctor violence
The China Youth Daily is a commercial daily run by the Communist Youth League. On the right hand side of today’s front page is a tiny headline: “how to restore the harmonious doctor-patient...
View ArticleWang Yang: Look online for constructive feedback on governance
The Dongguan Times is a commercial daily affiliated with the Party news group in the southern manufacturing city of Dongguan. Today the front page features a picture of Wang Yang, Provincial Party...
View ArticlePan Shiyi’s photo used to advertise sexual dysfunction treatment
The advert pictured here is for Nanyang Xiehe Hospital in Nanyang, Henan province. The main headline in the center of the ad says: ‘Male sexual dysfunction – A new method of treating make sexual...
View ArticleSinica Week of Floods
This is the Sinica Week, a summary of the most important China stories from the last seven days. Sinica is a weekly podcast about current affairs in China, hosted by Kaiser Kuo and Danwei’s Jeremy...
View ArticleRunning vs Tai Chi
For centuries, exercise in China has been defined by Taoist principles, but such notions are losing traction, especially among the young. Can traditions such as Tai Chi keep pace with newer Western...
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Guys and Sex Dolls – Scenes from the Guangzhou Sexpo
As millions returned to work after one of the most stressful holidays in years on Monday October 8, the Tenth Annual Guangzhou National Sex Culture Festival was finishing its last day. “Look at the...
View ArticleThe year of the breastfeeding flash mob in China – a father’s account
This has been the year of the flash mob in China, the breastfeeding flash mob to be exact. In May, August and September of this year, Chinese mothers bared their breasts in public to help galvanize a...
View Article“Knight of the Yangtze” Lu Zijian dies at the legendary age of 118
The front page of the Chongqing Economic Times (重庆商报) today features a glowing obituary to Lu Zijian (吕紫剑): Chinese martial arts expert, “Knight of the Yangtze”, “Swordsman of the North East”, “Three...
View ArticleNingbo will ‘resolutely not have the PX project’
Unmentioned in almost every other newspaper in the country, but right in the middle of the front page of the Ningbo Daily (宁波日报) today is a brief announcement: Ningbo will resolutely not have the PX...
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Contrasting World AIDS Day coverage in China’s newspapers
With tomorrow being World AIDS Day, a handful of newspapers in China today ran special features and front page headlines on HIV/AIDS-related stories. This coverage came in contrasting styles, however....
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“A city besieged” with pollution, but life goes on
The main theme on the front pages of China’s newspapers today is the record levels of pollution that convulsed China over the weekend and into this week. The front page of the Henan Business Times...
View ArticleThe groundwater of 90% of Chinese cities is polluted
The holiday is over, and here’s some news to bring you right back to down to earth. Or even further down underneath the earth where its apparently pretty smelly. The front page of the Strait Times...
View ArticleWelcome to Black Dragon River (a.k.a the Stinking Sewer)
There is a little stretch of river in the city of Shenzhen in Guangdong province where black water meets an endless stream of human filth. The place apparently doesn’t have a name, but some online...
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Shanghai nonagenarian writes comic book memoir commemorating love of his life
Rao Pingru (饶平如) has lived a long life marked by great hardship and perseverance. Yet Rao survived war, famine, incarceration, separation and illness, and lived his entire life with undying love for...
View ArticleMore dead pigs and a thousand dead ducks dumped in rivers
Has tragedy become farce? As the vile mystery of several thousand dead pigs floating down rivers in Shanghai continues to roil, Chinese newspapers today report that a thousand dead ducks have been...
View ArticleHubei farms and dead floating pigs
In the city of Huangshi in Hubei province there’s a lake called Cihu Lake. Situated close to the Yangtze River, the lake area appears to be an idyllic scenic spot. Yet, especially in light of recent...
View ArticleAQSIQ: Excessive lead detected in L’Occitane exfoliant
This post is an extract from the Danwei Bulletin, a briefing of company and market news collected from the Chinese news and social media before the information appears in English language reporting and...
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