Topic1 Most seniors in Beijing exclude in-laws from willsNearly 7,000 elderly citizens in Beijing have registered their last wills and testaments at a welfare center since last March. According to the China Will Register Center, nearly all of them ex...
Topic1 Single's Day Is Shopping DayYesterday was the Singles' Day and also the country's biggest e-commerce sales day. The total sales volume on Tmall exceeded 57.1 billion yuan, 57% higher than sales on the same day last year. How crazy was it? Topi...
Topic1 70 percent of Chinese overseas willing to return for workIn a survey conducted on Chinese living in North America by CareerBuilder, a recruiting company, 70 percent of participants expressed willingness to work in China or start a new business...
Topic1 China Mobile Plans to Experiment Free Text MessagesIndustry insiders reveal that China's largest telecom carrier, China Mobile, is planning to integrate its instant messaging services. It means text messages and multimedia messages won't be ch...
Topic1 Chinese Food in Japan Safer Than Japanese Food, Says Japanese WriterIn many Japanese people's opinion, Chinese foods are always paired with words such as polluted and dangerous. However, recently an economic writer named Tachibana Akir puts fo...
Topic1 Foreign TV shows online will need permitsChina's TV watchdog has released tougher regulations for foreign TV shows available on online streaming sites, raising concerns among Chinese fans and the online video industry. The regulations, release...
Topic1 Pension replacement rate lowChina is getting older year by year since 2000. As we enter an ageing society, do today's retirees have sufficient income to meet their needs? And will you and I have the appropriate pension to maintain our current...
Topic1 Chinese cities aren't the most polluted in the world? A report about 20 cities with the worst air quality in the world has got China talking this week. What's interesting about it is that not a single polluted Chinese city appeared on the list...
Topic1 China's top legislature reviews amendment on crime of corruptionChina's top legislature has started its five-and-half day session this week to consider draft laws and amendments including a draft amendment to the Criminal Law. According to the...
Topic1 Civil service exam sees fewer applicants due to graft crackdownChina's once popular civil service exam has seen fewer applicants this year. According to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, about 1.4 million eligible candidates...
Topic1 Weird English names Chinese people give themselvesThe Washington Post has carried an opinion piece on its website saying the adoption of unconventional English names in China and other parts of East Asia is the source of perennial fascination...
Topic1 China Regulates Foster Care SystemChinese families with more than two foster children will be required to give one up from December, as the new foster family regulation will take effect on December 1st. Are there problems with the current fost...
Topic1 Working overtime isn't unique problem to civil servantsThe job of a government employee used to be one of the most coveted positions in China. But now it's one of the most miserable jobs as civil servants complain about less income and more wo...
Topic1 Promoting fitness to become a national strategyChina has just made promoting fitness among its people one of the government's national strategies. In a policy document issued earlier this week, the State Council, China's Cabinet, has unveiled...
Topic1 Chinese Ghost CitiesAn institution called标准排名or Standard Ranking has released a report, showing that 50 Chinese cities out of 657 might have become ghost cities. And the top ten are: Erenhot, Qinzhou, Lasha, Jiayuguan, Jingangshan, Wei...
