China’s Social Credit System

BEIJING — China is encouraging tens of millions of migrant workers not to travel home during next February’s Lunar New Year holiday to prevent further spread of the coronavirus, disrupting its most important time for family gatherings. BEIJING — China is encouraging tens of millions of migrant workers not to…

For Christmas, I decided to treat myself with the gift of sight (2020 in 2020!) I traveled from Shenzhen to Hainan (a quick hour and a half direct flight) for laser eye surgery, also known as LASIK. The procedure costs a fraction of the price on the sunny island province…

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A Chinese citizen journalist was jailed for four years for her livestream reporting from Wuhan as the Covid-19 outbreak unfurled, her lawyer said today, almost a year after details of an "unknown viral pneumonia" surfaced in the central China city. Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer, was sentenced at a brief…

A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year's coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble," her lawyer said.Police attempt to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai…

In October, the Associated Press reported on the Trump administration’s response to what is happening within the borders of China: The deputy White House national security adviser on Friday denounced China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims, saying there was no justification for the country maintaining “concentration camps” within its borders.Last week,…

2020 has been a wild year for everybody and that means that it's been a wild year for the mobile games industry on the whole - what with it being the biggest entertainment industry in the world, etc, etc. Global pandemics, political upheaval, raging forest fires, swarms of locusts, new…

Hong Kong extended a compulsory quarantine by an extra seven days to 21 days for all visitors outside China, effective on Friday, in stepped-up efforts to prevent a new variant of the novel coronavirus from spreading.LIVE | All the latest coronavirus and lockdown updatesAuthorities also banned all people who have…

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