Almost overnight, a five-second video posted by the visually impaired man thrust him to the forefront of a national conversation, as well as the receiving end of a barrage of abusive insults.
The Trump administration is poised to implement a Chinese Great Firewallโstyle block on WeChat starting on September 20, with downloads of the app barred and network interruptions ordered. Downloads of TikTok will also be blocked, but the company has until November 12 to strike a deal with Oracle before also suffering technical freezes.
The case that has caused a reckoning in China's #MeToo movement.
Meet the social-influencer farmers winning public sympathy because they can no longer breed bamboo rats as food.
A positive step toward combating stigma around mental health in China.
Goubuli (็ไธ็ gวubรบlว), a Tianjin-based eatery chain that has been in business for more than 150 years, is facing fresh questions over its integrity as it attempts to suppress critical feedback from a disgruntled customer.
As part of Chinaโs national campaign to curb food waste, people are now forbidden to share videos of themselves consuming absurd amounts of food on social media. But some pet owners have taken advantage of the situation to popularize a disturbing genre of viral videos: animals overeating.
An exposรฉ published on September 8 details the exploitative and dehumanizing working conditions faced by Chinese delivery workers on a day-to-day basis. Today Meituan and Ele.me โ the top two food delivery services in the country โ have responded with open letters to the public, vowing to make significant changes in how they assess employeesโ performance and to treat them with more respect.
A court in Jiangsu Province has ruled in favor of an academic publishing house over a textbook describing homosexuality as a โpsychosexual disorder.โ