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Construction work remains ongoing at almost all of Beijing's Winter Olympics venues. Also: FIBA has fined the Chinese Basketball Association for refusing to let the China national team play outside the country.
Hengli Group, an industrial conglomerate that is one of China's largest private sector companies, has been slammed for posting a recruitment notice asking for only male candidates to apply.
Zheng Shuang's career in entertainment is almost certainly over, after four days of being at the center of a scandal about her abandoning her two infant children, who were born via paid surrogacy.
The Los Angeles Chinese Film Festival is currently holding virtual screenings until February 5. On Montage, viewers can watch, for free, four LGBTQ-themed shorts.
William Rowe's "Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth Century China," about the transition from the Qianlong Emperor to the Jiaqing Emperor, is particularly meaningful to read on this day, as America faces a strange mix of optimism and dread, the end of one administration and the start of another.
With hardline conservatives breathing down his neck in Beijing, Deng Xiaoping made an unannounced trip south in January 1992 to visit his reform-minded friends, a calculated move without any guarantee of success. But his gambit paid off in a big way.
The Chinese internet has been consumed today with allegations that a famous actress abandoned two babies born by American surrogate mothers.
Meng Po, who resides in the underworld, could remove all the bad memories a soul might possess, giving little thought to skills wiped or knowledge of loved ones lost forever.
Guangzhou Evergrande will be known as Guangzhou FC starting next season, while crosstown rivals R&F have adopted the City moniker. All told, 58 Chinese soccer clubs will change their names from their corporate monikers.