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Chinese police to identify drug-using drivers through saliva test
BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhua) — Chinese drivers may be stopped by traffic police and asked to open their mouths to allow police to collect samples of their saliva for drug testing. Something new to be tested for. The China Narcotics Control Foundation received a batch of instant saliva test kits worth about 3 million yuan [...]
Pizza Hut China’s Shrimp and Hot Dog Pizza
As heard from a food critic in a foreign country, you might face the challenge of eating combinations you’re culturally not tuned to enjoy. At which point you’ll just have to take one for the readers expecting a review. A foreigner proved this to be the case when he tried Pizza Hut China’s latest pie. [...]
Money Worries as Red Packets Get Fatter
Red packets traditionally contained a small sum of money given to children during the Chinese New Year. They are getting bigger and bigger every year!! But unlike in southern China, such as Guangdong Province and Hong Kong, where people mostly give several tens of yuan for children during the New Year holiday, red packets in [...]
Shanghai wives hold the purse strings
Shanghai wives have more power in managing their family wealth, research has found. Almost 42 percent of families in China have their assets managed by both husbands and wives. However, wives in Shanghai seem to have a stronger say in family finances. Shanghai women are know thru out China for being shrewd. More than 40 [...]
Are Chinese Wives Becoming Relationship Breadwinners? Chinese Women Continue To Defy Traditional Chinese Gender Roles
Chinese women’s’ duties have traditionally been limited to raising children, cooking and cleaning, while Chinese Man’s roles traditionally included working, earning money and controlling the family’s finances. While those traditional roles are still the norm for most of China, in Shanghai, for some time, many of the China’s traditional gender roles have been reversed. The [...]
Millions of Chinese trek home for festival
Considered the largest mass migration on earth, millions of Chinese are returning to their villages for the New Year. Shanghai, China – Despite a long, uncomfortable bus journey ahead Du Ling Ying is smiling. She is travelling to her home town in Anhui province and will see her family for the first time in a [...]
Last year’s fireworks display created a thick haze that sent pollution levels skyrocketing.
BEIJING — The world’s most populous country welcomed the Year of the Snake this weekend with a fete featuring entertainment and traditional foods but fewer fireworks. Even in Shanghai the major fireworks at 12 midnight lasted for maybe 30 minutes. It’s a far cry from 10 years ago, when it was like a war all [...]
China Regulator Says 16 Firms Pull IPO Plans
SHANGHAI–Sixteen companies have abandoned plans to list their shares on one of the nation’s stock exchanges since late December, the China Securities Regulatory Commission said. The market has just been going down!! Eleven companies have withdrawn their applications to list on the start-up board and five firms had scrapped plans to list on one of [...]
China’s only children less trusting, avoid risk, study finds
In China, the “little emperors” may have no clothes, at least when it comes to economic risk-taking and being conscientious workers. That’s the finding of a new study that looks at the effects of China’s one-child policy on the current generation of young adults in the world’s second-largest economy. China enacted strict rules mandating that [...]
In Shanghai, A License Plate Can Cost as Much as a Car
A Shanghai license plate now costs as much as a new mid-range sedan. The average price for a Shanghai plate soared to 75,000 yuan ($12,000) at the city’s license plate auction over the weekend, roughly equal to the retail price of a brand new, fully loaded Geely MK-II sedan. Shanghai plates went for an average [...]
