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Tencent’s game studio tries to combat employee burnout by banning long working hours — but will others follow suit? China's Social Credit System

Tencent’s game studio tries to combat employee burnout by banning long working hours — but will others follow suit?

“These policies ultimately work in the studio’s favor if you really think it through. Employees will continue to work long hours, but at home, secretly. At the same time, the company can save a lot of money by not providing overtime meal allowances and overtime pay,” a critic commented (in…
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June 12, 2021
Didi the Uber-slayer set for the world’s biggest initial public offering China's Social Credit System

Didi the Uber-slayer set for the world’s biggest initial public offering

Didi Chuxing CEO Chéng Wéi 程维 at a product launch event in Beijing, November, 2020. REUTERS/Yilei Sun Didi Chuxing, China’s ride-hailing giant, has filed to list in the U.S. in what will be the world’s biggest initial public offering this year, that could raise around $10 billion at a valuation…
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June 12, 2021
China’s Deadly Ultramarathon Blamed on Negligence by Organizers China's Social Credit System

China’s Deadly Ultramarathon Blamed on Negligence by Organizers

HONG KONG—Chinese officials said mismanagement and negligence by local officials and the operators of a 60-mile ultramarathon in the country’s western mountains led to the deaths of 21 runners last month. The death toll among participants in the Yellow River Stone Forest Ultramarathon was among the worst in mountain sports—exceeding…
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June 11, 2021
Covid China: No bats or pangolins sold at Wuhan wet markets before pandemic, Oxford study says China's Social Credit System

Covid China: No bats or pangolins sold at Wuhan wet markets before pandemic, Oxford study says

No bats or pangolins were sold at Wuhan wet markets immediately before the coronavirus pandemic started, according to an Oxford-led study. The research documents a menagerie of nearly 50,000 animals from 38 species, including badgers and boars, peacocks and pit vipers, traded at animal markets in the Chinese city from…
bubmag
June 9, 2021
The evidence leading experts toward theory that Covid is man made China's Social Credit System

The evidence leading experts toward theory that Covid is man made

Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Throughout 2020 and into early 2021, the theory that SARS-CoV-2 was manufactured in a laboratory was either…
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June 8, 2021
59 works feted at elderly care design contest China's Social Credit System

59 works feted at elderly care design contest

Fifty-nine works topped out at the 9th China Senior Care Entrepreneurial Design and Innovation Awards competition, which featured the latest inventions, applications, products and technologies in the senior care and nursing sector. The competition received 900 submissions, and the winning entries were awarded yesterday. The submitted works came from enterprises,…
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June 8, 2021