In sharp contrast with the Chinese media, that bring out a clear truth. Full Comment>>

Why this thing? It can swivel allright, but does it have to? Full Comment>>

That leaves another 300 million plus that are not affected by second hand smoke. How do they do that? Full Comment>>

And the numbers 3, 2 and 1 risk factors to public health are.... Full Comment>>

Secondary inorganic aerosols? Anyone? EDIT: seems to be the result of chemical processes between different kinds of (primary) pollution. A big one would be ammonia from agriculture & livestock reacting with acidic gases from industry, hence causing the next generation of pollutants. Obviously I'm not a chemist. Full Comment>>

Government employees were allowed to use tax money to buy their cigarettes? Full Comment>>

Where's the army? Full Comment>>

Wow! Filthy liars! Grass growing on the pavement all of a sudden, the bad foreign guy changed his jacket and is virtually raping the Chinese reporter. But it's black and white so it must be authentic. Thanks for sharing this. Full Comment>>

Interesting, but 24 days too late. I'll try to remember this for next year. Full Comment>>

A recent article on this site stated that there are about 600.000 foreigners living in China now (meaning the ones that have settled down here, not the tourists). Now 200 have been deported. That's 0.33 promille of the foreign population. And it includes the ones that ripped off a tobacconist or rode their bike into ... Full Comment>>

'A clearly mentally ill man has found himself in prison for 10 days...' Diagnosed and treated, welcome to Chinese mental health care. Full Comment>>

I don't agree with you either. I was here in 2008 when something happened concerning the Olympic Flame in Paris (and something about Tibet but I didn't really understand that) and all of a sudden 'the French' equaled evil and Carrefour saw their business decline until one of their CEO's apologized to the People of ... Full Comment>>

Chinese people have a problem with patience. Full Comment>>

Some kind of advertisement? Wrong time, wrong place. Full Comment>>

We all experience lots of frustration here in China and have this site (among others) to vent them. But the Chinese, however patient they seem or are, and however used to suppress negative emotions, are affected on a daily basis by at least some of the same things. It is not surprising that once every while one of ... Full Comment>>

Protecting oneself should be done in the most ridiculous way, it's probably the safest way to show one's discontent without the risk of the government cracking down on you for disturbing peace and harmony. A true 'demonstration' against the pollution in China that will attract a lot of attention worldwide if enough ... Full Comment>>

The Chinese government should think about bonuses or a tax reduction for couples that postpone their having 'a baby'. Talk to anyone here, ask his or her age and add 26, it'll be the mother's age 9 out of 10 times. Population control would be served by a greater distance in age between the generations and even ... Full Comment>>

Autumn winds usually get hold of empty plastic bottles rolling them back and forth on the balcony outside my bedroom window (3rd floor) and I've climbed out several times to make sure I had a quiet night's sleep. It's the garbage from the people living higher up, of course. Maybe I'm more lucky than I thought before ... Full Comment>>

I once rode my bike and turned right like this guy. A lady coming from the same street planned to go straight and started crossing the road, so I aimed my bike behind her. A car coming from the right decided to cut off the corner though, turning into the street both the lady and I were coming out of, and the lady ... Full Comment>>

Actually this would have been much more in the West (of Europe), maybe 5 times as much. But this family seems to think it 'usually' is much cheaper. Now why would they think that? Btw, we would have an insurance that covers the costs so we wouldn't worry at all, and of course that is one of the things that's lacking ... Full Comment>>

I'm not used to a lot of Chinese dishes myself, but here must have been some things that even the Chinese aren't used to. This may be where the future starts for all of us. Six billion people and still growing; nutritional value in these bugs that can't be ignored forever; somewhere the two will meet. Full Comment>>

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Numbers always seem to be problematic eh. Up till 2011, 54.12 million entries/exits... since the dawn of history? Since Marco Polo, who was number 1 on this list? Since 1979, when Deng said 'Open Sesame'? Since Y2K? Foreigners are no longer rare. 600000 permanent residents, that's a whopping 5/10000 of a percent of ... Full Comment>>

Holy smoke, of course it was a joke. In fact I was as disgusted as you were by this cruelty and the idiot who tried to justify it by saying 'we want to make an example out of them'. If I assume the whole story is true, that is, and I'm not convinced at all. The rats look too good (store bought, someone says, which ... Full Comment>>

People found their innocent little faces adorable? In another article I just read it takes a foreigner to concern himself with stray dogs and cats. But rats are adorable. Come on. They are little thieves and a threat to public health and should be chopped up to cat- and dogfood for the aforementioned foreigner's ... Full Comment>>