We Chinese: What do you think of APEC?
This year’s APEC meeting in Beijing has prompted city officials to crank up authoritarian measures, including smog-busting factory closures, school holidays, rickshaw bans and other […]
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We Chinese: What do you think of the ‘airpocalypse’?
This week, Beijing issued an orange pollution alert as AQI readings approached 500, forcing Brazilian football officials to order the team not to leave their […]
Blue gaseous mass looms over Beijing
By FEICHANG WURANEnvironment Correspondent BEIJING (China Daily Show) – As China begins its annual National People’s Congress today, all eyes were on the arrival of […]
“Ah, spring is here!” red-eyed man chokes
By FEICHANG WURANEnvironment Correspondent BEIJING (China Daily Show) – Standing on the doorstep of his smog-shrouded hutong home, poetry lover Sun Xiaogang managed to remark, “Ah, […]
500,000 live fish miraculously pulled out of Shanghai river
By SHUI ZHUYUAgriculture Correspondent SHANGHAI (China Daily Show) – In what some are describing as “the final straw,” nearly half-a-million still-living fish have been pulled […]
Ask a passive-aggressive Chinese girl on Facebook
By XI MEITEIWestern Media Correspondent Dear passive-aggressive Chinese girl on Facebook, I am a 35-year-old American, who just moved to Xian for six months to […]
China to overtake Somalia as world’s most corrupt nation by 2020: report
By LUO GUANCorruption Correspondent BEIJING (China Daily Show) – Mixed reactions have greeted the news that China’s unstoppable economic rise will soon hand it a […]
China now world’s largest producer of rubble
By GONG DIEconomics Correspondent BEIJING (China Daily Show) – Arriving at work one morning, bank teller Zhao Chen was mildly surprised to find large heaps […]
Why I’m leaving China
So you’ve finally decided to break up with China. You’ll probably want to write a blog post or newspaper article about it, then. Too busy […]
Shifang copper plant closure affects US penny production
By FEICHANG WURANEnvironment Correspondent WASHINGTON (China Daily Show) – The piggybanks sit empty and silent. Wishing wells report a sharp decline in deposits. And across […]