In response to recent revelations that some prize-winning projects of the China Adolescents Science & Technology Innovation Contest (CASTIC), one of the top science contests for Chinese students, were actually the work of their parents, the countryโs education authorities have ordered all national academic competitions for students to investigate cheating.
After an earlier false start, China is set to reopen movie theaters starting on July 20. They will be limited to 30% seating capacity, and half the number of screenings as usual.
In China, where traditional values โ and new Communist Party campaigns โ dictate that womenโs social responsibility is to procreate, taboos surrounding childlessness are particularly deep-seated. But one woman has had enough of it and is ready to fight the toxic narrative.
The initiative aims to address seven major problems faced by teenagers in their internet use, including long-standing issues like โunsafe contentโ in violent video games and lewd animes, as well as more recent phenomena, such as the proliferation of โextremeโ fan culture.
SKP Beijing, a ultra-luxury shopping complex in the Chinese capital, came under fire over the weekend after a video showing a food delivery driver being denied entry went viral.
Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent and the countryโs most beloved chili sauce brand Lวo Gร n Mฤ ่ๅนฒๅฆ are officially back on good terms, after a highly public feud that ended with a dramatic twist.
A professor at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, has been removed from his teaching duties after accidentally showing students his sexual online conversations with three women while screen sharing during a virtual class.
After being forced to close for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, around 345 movie theaters in Shanghai have received much-needed financial aid of nearly 18 million yuan ($2.5 million) from the cityโs film bureau. But with cinemas across the country showing no signs of reopening, Chinaโs movie theater business is still expecting widespread bankruptcies.
The founder of Yuzhang Academy, a โConfucian reform schoolโ that purportedly treats internet addiction, has been sentenced to almost three years behind bars on charges of unlawful restraint, after dozens of former students came forward accusing the institution of using corporal punishment and torture to โcureโ them.