Trending on Sina Weibo is China's Youth Day (青年节). May 4 is a special holiday in the People's Republic of China, Youth Day, for youths of...
As Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign is intensifying, a list of China's 100 most wanted corrupt officials who have fled abroad was published online last week. Are...
Trending on Sina Weibo is the story of a woman applying for her teacher's license and needing a proof of a proof that she had no...
Chinese companies have been increasingly present in Africa for years. Besides investing in infrastructure and goldmines, Beijing is now exporting its media and entertainment to Africa....
China's Parliamentary Sessions will commence in Beijing this week. This year, cutting costs on the event itself has become a priority.
Setting off fireworks and playing with firecrackers during Chinese New Year is a long-standing tradition. An old saying goes that the sound and heat of fireworks...
Chinese New Year has arrived. We are saying goodbye to the year of the Horse, and welcome the year of the Goat. Did you know that...
An overview of Islam in China and China’s relation to its Muslim minority.
Amidst the chaos and suffering of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) there was one beacon of light in Chengdu, where a school was set up that...
A local Chinese legal case stirred controversy this week as a Beichuan court denied a claim for compensation of the family Xie, after their relative was...
Earlier this month, a ban on wearing burqa's, or 'face masking veils' (蒙面罩袍), was legally approved in China. On January 18th, People's Daily reports that the...
When a naked girl plunged into a river in Nanjing on January 12, one young man did not hesitate to jump after her into the cold...
This week Weibo asks itself whether being part of the fuerdai (富二代), China's China's second generation rich, is all that it’s cracked up to be.
Freedom of speech has always been a complicated issue in the PRC. The terrorist attack of January 7th on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo quickly became...
8-Year-Old with HIV Banned: A small village in Sichuan has held a referendum for the banishment of an 8-year-old boy infected with HIV. The villagers unanimously...
China has held his first official Nanjing Massacre memorial day over the past weekend. Weibo's netizens have shown their support for the memorial, hoping that China...
Central theme on Weibo on the International day of the Handicapped: the acceptance of guide dogs in China still has a long way to go.
As China’s patience with North Korea is growing thin, China is questioning the ties with its 65-year long ally. “We have wiped North Korea’s ass for...
The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) has notified Chinese media that they are no longer allowed to use Internet slang.
Several Chinese media, including CCTV and People's Daily, report that trade in children is on the rise in China's Fujian province. Young children and newborns are...
