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Why Does My Takeout Arrive So Fast? Because it’s Prefabricated

Easy, isn’t it? To imagine chefs in a restaurant just down the street using all their skills to wash, chop and cook everything you’ve just ordered in the shortest possible time. In actual fact, they may have only warmed...

Summer Water Park Scandal; Algae and Frogs Proliferation

Water parks are a big draw wherever you go, during the summer of 2022 in particular. But this year in China is seeing the industry rocked by a series of scandals associated with parks’ water quality. It’s got many...

Heat Stroke Deaths Mount as Temps Top Record Held for 61 Years

Not since 1961 has Jiangsu seen temperatures in mid July this high. In Nanjing, with humidity levels also soaring, the threat of heat stroke is very real indeed. For “multiple organ failure” is a cause of death increasingly common...

Death Penalty for Boyfriend of Nanjing Student Killed in Yunnan

Just 2 days short of the second anniversary of her murder, the killers of a Nanjing college student have been handed the death penalty as the “trial of the century” came to a close in faraway Yunnan, scene for...

7 Tons of Fruit Comprises University Student Graduation Gift

Graduation time! It’s been that time of year again for university and colleges all over China, and a nice gift for each graduate has become a prerequisite. In seeking to be a little different, quite a few have come...

Back in the Air but Man Refused Boarding for NAT 3 Mins Overdue

Getting on for 2 and a half years into the Pandemic, airlines flying to China are finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. But would-be fliers should take heed of the experience of one passenger who...

“520” Does Not Sound Like “I Love You”; Actually it Does!

Visit literally anywhere remotely referring to the Chinese language on the internet today and be told that this day is (yet another) Valentines Day in the Middle Kingdom, on account that the pronunciation of this date sounds like “I...

50 Photos from 50 Days in Shanghai as City “Lifts” Lock Down

Shanghai is back in business. Not quite though, but that’s what authorities might have us believe. And of course it has come with a tremendous economic loss, not least that of an entire season. Marking the day, 50 photos...

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Shanghai’s Railway Map Shifts East; Cross City to Hongqiao soon but a Memory

For years, Shanghai’s high-speed rail map has pulled passengers towards Hongqiao. That balance is beginning to change. New stations...

Shiseido Sues Aldi over a ¥24.9 Primer that Resembles Its ¥540 Rival

Shiseido has sued Aldi China, the product's manufacturer and an Aldi Shanghai store operator over unfair competition, arguing that...

Forty Tables Became Twenty; Then the Bookings Stopped

Susu has sold wedding banquets at one of the biggest hotels in her small town in northern China for...

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