Topic 1-Public parking spaces made private Having your own apartment and driving to work is a sweet dream for many Chinese urban dwellers. However, in reality, many of us live in an apartment without our own parking space in the residential community...
Topic 1-Empty heart of top Chinese college students According to a psychological counselor with Peking University, over 30 percent of freshmen in the university hate studying and over 40 percent feel life has no meaning at all. The counselor says man...
Topic 1-Elderly daycare centers in Beijing The Beijing municipality government has built 2000 elderly daycare centers since 2009, so that the growing elderly population can receive care in the neighborhood. But latest news came in that only 70 of the...
Topic 1-Boy with Autism refused to board the flight A 13-year-old boy was refused to board a flight because he was air quotes acting weird. The airport explained that for safety concerns anyone suspicious should be kept away. It was later reported th...
Topic 1-Housing coupons As first tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai have seen another round of housing price hike, third and forth tier cities are still undergoing a sluggish housing market. Local governments are getting creative in trying to c...
Topic 1-Nude pictures as IOU for online loan According to media reports, female university students have undertook risky loans via P2P platforms whereby they are required to submit nude photographs of themselves as collateral to loan sharks. If payme...
Topic 1-Boy found dead in abandoned well after 100-hour rescue A six-year-old boy has been found dead in an abandoned well in north China's Hebei Province after 107 hours of desperate rescue efforts. The story is being widely shared and discussed acr...
Topic 1-Official asks poor people who get support from poverty-alleviation project to be grateful A county official published a Wechat article in which he criticized some beneficiaries of a national poverty-alleviation project for not being grateful....
Topic 1-Crazy Double Eleven Singles Day China's Singles Day falls every year in November. You can literally see why when the date is written out, 4 single one's which can be seen to represent 4 single people. In 2009, the retail giant Alibaba used th...
Exclusive Interview with WHO Expert Promoting health, promoting sustainable development, it's our health, our future and our choice. So let's talk about health with Dr. Bernhard Schwartlander, World Health Organization Representative in China, and Ai...
Topic 1-Profit-led private schools banned from compulsory education system The Chinese legislature has banned profit-led private schools from the nine-year compulsory education system. Some people argued that it was a setback of Chinese education pol...
Topic 1-QQ groups encourage young people to kill themselves Two college students, who met on Tencent's QQ instant messenger platform, committed suicide together in a hotel in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province recently. After the incident, Nanjin...
Topic1-China considers new law to protect minor victims of sexual assault Chinese lawmakers are proposing that the country should better protect underage victims to sexual assault. Highlights include making it possible for minors to claim compensatio...
Topic 1-Universal Studios to open theme park in Beijing After the Disneyland opened its theme park in Shanghai earlier this year, another foreign theme park is planning to come to the Chinese capital. Universal Studios plans to open a theme park in B...
Topic 1: A quarter of cities in China sleep in noise Leading environmental authorities in China have released a report suggesting a quarter of all Chinese, living in cities, go to sleep with noise. Do you sleep in a noisy environment, and what's prob...
