"China’s official stance on gambling might seem to run counter to Las Vegas’ 'Sin City' image, so Las Vegas tourism officials had to find a way to market their city to Chinese officials in a respectful, delicate manner."
"A man from northern China has been arrested after he tried to make four pork sausages look like explosives and threatened to blow up his ex-girlfriend and her family if she didn’t meet him again, a newspaper reported.”
The matrilineal Mosuo society in Yunnan Province has drawn an increasing number of tourists over the years, and while the tourism boom has helped alleviate the poverty and isolation of the ethnic minority group, it is also eroding traditional family structures.
Tensions in Mandalay have been rising as locals view the Chinese coming to the city to do business as "interlopers who take advantage of Mandalay’s location close to India and Bangladesh, Laos and Thailand, as well as a large swath of southern China." Moreover, The New York Times writes, "some of the Chinese view the Burmese as beneath them, slow at business and making money."
"The incident has triggered widespread criticism online, with many netizens pointing out that it is unreasonable to demand fingerprints given the circumstances. In response, several banks to which Wu applied reversed their previous decisions.”
A sleepy village in the shadow of the Great Wall has been transformed over the past two decades through architectural projects designed to encourage tourism.
"Three men in Wuhu, a city in East China's Anhui Province, have been handed suspended prison sentences for killing a Yangtze alligator. The reptile was one of 92 alligators raised on a farm that escaped when heavy floods hit the area in July.”
A Q&A with the founder of a project that tracks migratory birds that set out from northern China and travel the world.
"Once, classical music generally traveled from the West to the rest. Now China is reversing the exchange, not merely performing Western classical music in China, but exporting it."