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China's crypto crackdown expands as a northern province announces new restrictions on mining and trading in cooperation with Beijing
"Cryptocurrency mining consumes an enormous amount of energy, which is against China's 'carbon neut…
Carla Mozée
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China begins mass testing in Beijing as 67 new cases appear
The market became a hotspot after it reported several new COVID-19 cases.Out of all the samples, 12…
PTI
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Chinese capital Beijing shrouded by another sandstorm, air quality turns to severely polluted
The second sandstorm in two weeks hit Beijing on Sunday, turning the skyline yellow and plunging ai…
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660,000 People In China Have Been Living With Almost No Water For Four Years
CCTV news spoke with villagers in Yuanmou County who said they last had rain four months ago. To co…
Mamta Badkar
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China is freaking out over an 'open secret' that its cooking oil was ferried for years in chemical tanks that weren't cleaned
China is up in arms after state media discovered trucks interchangeably delivered soy oil and chemi…
Matthew Loh
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A local government in China faked signatures on nearly 2,000 traffic tickets amid a $10 trillion debt time bomb
The transport bureau of She County in Hebei province faked signatures and fingerprints on 1,964 of …
Huileng Tan
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The top topic on China's Twitter is an old photo of Xi Jinping posing at the Golden Gate Bridge
A photo of a younger Xi Jinping in San Francisco is dominating Weibo as he attends the APEC summit …
Matthew Loh,Sinéad Baker
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5 ways China's trying to get people to have more babies — from cash incentives to cracking down on the 'bride price'
Last year, China's population started shrinking for the first time in 60 years, spurring renewed fe…
Huileng Tan
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China's so desperate to boost its birth rates, it's even cracking down on customary betrothal gifts for brides to help people get married more easily
A prospective bridegroom would give betrothal gifts, called caili, to a bride's family in a show of…
Huileng Tan
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Chinese city orders all indoor pets belonging to COVID-19 patients in one neighborhood to be killed
The Anci district of Langfang city ordered the "complete culling of indoor animals," state media re…
Sinéad Baker
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Elon Musk says he wants to meet his Chinese doppelgänger, Yilong Ma — that is, if he isn't a deepfake
Musk first noticed Ma last year when a video of the latter surfaced on TikTok, prompting the billio…
Cheryl Teh
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A desperate father gifted his son 20 properties to help him attract a wife, sparking debate on some parents' obsession to marry off their children
"The father is not trying to show off. He just wanted to display his sincerity and find a daughter-…
Waiyee Yip
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The internet helped a Chinese teenager find the parents who sold him as a baby. When they rejected him, he took his own life.
Liu Xuezhou's search for his biological parents captured nationwide attention — but also put …
Matthew Loh
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After her groom unexpectedly found himself in lockdown, a bride broke with Chinese tradition to go forward with the wedding — and ended up in lockdown, too
It's customary in China for the groom to pick up his bride to get married, but it was impossible as…
Waiyee Yip
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A Chinese man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling off his 5 children for $28,000
The man, surnamed Yang, was dealt a 10-year prison term after being accused of having five children…
Cheryl Teh
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China's Covid flare-ups and lockdowns are disrupting port and chip factory operations, hitting the supply chain — again
Partial lockdowns have hit the Port of Ningbo, as well as Samsung and Micron's chip factories in Xi…
Huileng Tan
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A woman in China stuck a fluorescent light through her ponytail to keep studying when the university lights went out, and the photo has become a viral symbol for hard work
The woman was studying for an exam when the lights went out, so she improvised and strapped a fluor…
Cheryl Teh
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Photos show Beijing glowing yellow in the worst sandstorm for a decade: 'It looks like the end of the world'
Photos from Beijing, China, show the sandstorm turning the city yellow and obscuring buildings as s…
Sinéad Baker
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China has reimposed a strict lockdown for 400,000 people after a spike of coronavirus cases near Beijing
Government officials have responded quickly and aggressively to even small surges as they move to c…