A picture is worth a thousand words…

Alia | April 23rd, 2013 - 10:57 pm
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Two pictures show very well how much trust the Chinese people have in their government when it comes to disaster relief donation.

Chinese on the train

Alia | April 11th, 2013 - 2:23 am
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A set of pictures taken by Chinese photographer Wang Fuchun, who used to work at China’s Brother Rail, that record pieces of life on China’s traditional “green-skin” trains from 1982 to 2000.

Paws in pantyhose (OK for work)

Alia | April 8th, 2013 - 3:35 pm
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Here is the new Internet meme in China where some Chinese pet owners put their dogs in lingerie. While the first few posts were probably for fun, the meme stirred up quite some interesting discussions after taking off.

A “Chinese story” in Manhattan’s housing market

Alia | March 26th, 2013 - 5:12 am
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Thus goes the tile of a special CCTV (China Central Television) report on a Chinese mom who bought a USD $6.5 million apartment near the 5th Avenue in Manhattan for her 2-year-old daughter.

Clip of a Chinese heroine gang raped by Japanese soldiers during WWII went viral on the Chinese Internet

Alia | March 18th, 2013 - 3:34 am
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What really makes the video clip viral isn’t that a Chinese woman was gang raped by Japanese soldiers, but what happened after (or, to be more exact, during) the rape. It’s the kind of nationalism that even most Chinese find absurd and annoying.

Chinese netizens outrageous at Guanzhou Chengguan who beat a mom in front her 2-year-old kid

Alia | March 7th, 2013 - 6:12 am
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The most-shared picture in the past 12 hours on Sina Weibo, China’s leading microblogging service, is a set of images in which a group of Chengguan (China’s special urban Administrative and Law Enforcement officers) tried to take away a street vendor mom in front of her little kid.

New meme song from Li Shuangjiang: American Soldiers Are Good For Nothing

Alia | February 27th, 2013 - 6:06 am
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An earlier song by famous singer Li Shuangjiang, whose son was recently detained for gang rape, became a new meme song on the Chinese Internet. Its name is American Soldiers Are Good For Nothing.

North Korea released recommended hairstyles for its people

Alia | February 22nd, 2013 - 7:30 pm
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Men and women in North Korea are encouraged to choose from one of the 18 female hair styles and 10 male hair styles recommended by their government.

The colorful waters of China

Alia | February 20th, 2013 - 5:29 am
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A picture is worth a thousand words. Tencent News recently put together a picture essay of the severity of water pollution in China.

Migrant workers in Beijing dressed in cartoon costumes to protest unpaid wages

Alia | February 1st, 2013 - 11:59 pm
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On Jan 31, 5 migrant workers in Beijing, who dressed as anger birds, Garfield, Donald Duck, and the Chinese God of Wealth, protested outside the headquarter of China National Radio and asked their “blood-sweat” money to be paid.