Most global polls rate Scandinavian and west European nations as being among the world’s happiest and most liveable. Not so says a North Korean survey, which ranked China as “the happiest place on earth.” As…
Category: Society
“I am a normal person. I have no crime or illegal petition”, Qian Mingqi’s micro blog said. “But I step on a road I don’t want to step on”. The words might have been those…
Evictions spark wave of violence in China By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing The scene last week after an explosion in Fuzhou city set off by a man at breaking point over the demolition of…
Officials in the southeastern Chinese province of Guangdong are learning that hiding a problem isn’t the same as fixing it. As readers may recall, the Guangdong city of Shenzhen in April evicted 80,000 people it…
A recent traffic incident and the ensuing protests have aroused unusual attention, because it occurred in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia, where ethnic Mongolians live alongside Han people. In some media reports, the incident has been depicted…
A chronic drought is ravaging farmland. The Gobi Desert is inching south. The Yellow River, the so-called birthplace of Chinese civilization, is so polluted it can no longer supply drinking water. The rapid growth of…
China’s civil affairs organizations have dealt with more than 465,000 cases of divorce in the first quarter of this year, an average of over 5,000 per day. According to the latest statistics from the Ministry…
The 24th World No Tobacco Day, initiated by the World Health Organization, took place on May 31, 2011. China’s Ministry of Health introduced the “Regulations on Health Management in Public Places” on May 1, which…
When villager Deng Qi’an built three tile houses next to the Sanwei Battery Company six years ago for his business, he never expected that it would result in physical harm coming to his family. Like…
At the entrance gate of Beijing Railway Station, Zhang Yue, who became famous around China these days for his anti-cigarettes behavior, snatched a cigarette out of a people’s mouth. Zhang Yue, from Henan Province, dedicated…