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Wan Hu and his Ming Dynasty flying chair

YURI GAGARIN, the first man in space, is believed to have said that exploration “is not the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process that humanity carries out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.” In terms of exploring the heavens, Chinese people might be…

May 23, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Features

The governance numbers: A comparative U.S. and China list

There are a huge number of good things you can say about the United States—and of course there are bad things too. Exactly the same is true about China. Yet the world’s most populous country is harshly and relentlessly criticized by the U.S. for shortcomings that are actually more prevalent in America. Jerry Grey reports.…

May 18, 20220Comments ByJerry Grey

Culture

Historians find toothbrush, eleven centuries old

SMILE PLEASE! Archeologists have found toothbrushes more than a thousand years old – and they are remarkably similar to modern ones. They had the same shape, although were made of bone, not plastic. And instead of the nylon brushes of today’s equivalents, the ancient ones had hog bristles. There were different varieties, just like today.…

May 4, 20220Comments ByEmily Zhou

Opinion

China’s Solomon Islands link: A meme to share

April 27, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

News

China bans slavery, jumps ahead of US on workers’ rights

THE CHINESE BANNED slavery this week. This puts the country further ahead of the United States in the legal protection of workers. The world’s most populous country signed up to two more international conventions against forced labor. This means China has now signed up to six out of eight rights declarations protecting workers of…

April 21, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Features

Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

China’s firm, serious approach to managing the Covid pandemic has differed from that of many other countries, and has clearly worked rather well. Yet Western media outlets feel compelled to tell China that it has slipped badly behind the times by not shifting, as they have, to Living with Covid. Seeing other (surely inferior!) societies doing…

March 31, 20220Comments ByRichard Cullen

News

Hong Kong women are scooping up younger male marriage partners

LADIES, WOULD YOU consider marrying a younger man? Yes please, say Hong Kong women. Thousands of them have been going north into Mainland China to find younger males to wed. The border closures have halted the process, but demographers expect it to restart before the end of the year. The bride-older-than-groom trend, rare across…

March 30, 20220Comments ByFriday Writers

News

China’s extraordinary Digital Courts: future of the law?

A SERIES OF QUIET innovations has led to the creation of an extraordinary milestone: the world’s first true Digital Court system. You file a lawsuit, fill in the forms, present evidence, and get the legal ball rolling – and then get out of bed, because you are still in your pyjamas. Anxious to do away…

March 18, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

Zero Covid: reactions to NZ versus China

It's amusing to compare the rapturous headlines from when New Zealand achieved zero covid, not long ago, to today's negative ones for China; This report can be read as text, by scrolling down, or watched as a video, by clicking here. HAVE YOU HEARD what the Chinese are doing now? They are forcing their citizens…

January 24, 20220Comments ByNury Vittachi

Opinion

No ‘Little Lamb Diplomacy’ from China

FOR 109 YEARS, since the Opium War in 1840, China has suffered foreign invasions, semi-colonialisation, extreme poverty, and demonisation. We toughed them out. With the founding of the new China in 1949, we drove out the last colonialists from our land. Since then no country has ever dared to invade us again. Rising from the…

January 19, 20220Comments ByC. K. Yeung

Wan Hu and his Ming Dynasty flying chair

The governance numbers: A comparative U.S. and China list

Historians find toothbrush, eleven centuries old

China’s Solomon Islands link: A meme to share

China bans slavery, jumps ahead of US on workers’ rights

Facts vs politics in the ‘living with Covid’ debate

Hong Kong women are scooping up younger male marriage partners

China’s extraordinary Digital Courts: future of the law?

Zero Covid: reactions to NZ versus China

No ‘Little Lamb Diplomacy’ from China

Saving what’s left of Western liberalism

Scientists in China create chip that bridges optic and wireless systems

Scientists find treasure trove of antibodies in paediatricians’ blood