The new Chinese cooking app 'Good Chef' was only launched last fall, but has already created a buzz in China. The start-up managed to get a...
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...
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...
With plastic bottles draped around her body, sneakers on her head and necklaces made from corn, Wang Shouying is a style icon extraordinaire. Living in small-town...
Trending on Sina Weibo this week was a 10-meter deep hole that appeared in Beijing's historical city center on January 24th. The incident stirred public outcry...
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...
The fairy-tale wedding of Taiwanese actor, director and musician Jay Chou (周杰伦) became a trending topic on Sina Weibo this week - perfect location, beautiful dress...
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...
Chinese President Xi Jinping is also lovingly called Xi Dada ('Daddy Xi' or 'Uncle Xi') by ordinary Chinese people. The growing cult around his persona is...
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...
With New Year having just past, and time still being a hot topic, Weibo users have jumped on the topic of the 1 extra second in...
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.
China's emergency number '110' is supposed to be used when one needs urgent help from the police. However, some people call 110 with the strangest information...
Rice and wheat have been the dominant staple in China for centuries. The potato, generally perceived a vegetable instead of staple food, is a cuckoo in...
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...
Trending on Sina Weibo today is the hot topic of a 'super kid' who took his drunken father home by driving a tractor. What made the...
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...
My Skateboard Shoes is China's quirkiest song of 2014.
A noteworthy story from the Netherlands has made the rounds in the Chinese news and on social media. When a Dutch man wanted to propose to...
