英闻天下——571 Smog Stirs Firecracker Complaints

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection is warning the air across much of northern China is going to remain seriously polluted through the night. The smog shrouding northern and eastern China has been forcing highway closures and flight cancella

英闻天下——570 Brain Pacemaker Helps Keep Memory for AD Patients

Alzheimer's disease or AD is an illness that seriously affects senior citizens. It causes memory loss, and patients may even gradually lose some of their basic physical abilities. But now researchers in the U.S. are using technology to reduce memory

英闻天下——569 Over-priced Meals on Trains Stir Controversy

Have you ever bought a meal on the high-speed railway? Reports say a package meal on the high-speed trains sell for about 45 yuan, roughly 7 dollars. But what you get is only four slices of beef, an egg, a small, cold vegetable, and some rice. Usuall

英闻天下——568 No Fireworks for Spring Festival?

Heavy air pollution recently hit many places in north China. It inspired a heated debate over whether officials should ban the use of fireworks, which is a tradition of Lunar New Year celebrations. Bloggers have responded with much divergence on the

英闻天下——567 Rent a Boyfriend Back Home

Who to bring back home for the Spring Festival dinner? That's the question many single urbanites struggle with before they head back home for the Spring Festival, or Chinese Lunar New Year, which falls on February 10th this year. As young people go h

英闻天下——566 Regulations Promoting Saving Take Effect

In Guangzhou city, the capital of Guangdong Province, the tradition of local enterprises is to hold a banquet to celebrate the beginning of the New Year. But this year, many companies have cancelled their banquet. One staff member at a local Guangzho

英闻天下——565 China to Improve Wellbeing for the Elderly

A report on the elderly here in China is suggesting the government should do more to help improve the wellbeing of the country's rapidly growing aging population. The China Research Center on Aging has stressed the need to increase government spendin

英闻天下——564 Mixed Responses for Calligraphy Education

The popularity of Chinese calligraphy has been dwindling. With technological advances, many young people no longer write words by hand but use keyboards. Many now struggle to write sentences on paper let alone attempt the complexities of calligraphy.

英闻天下——575 China Fights Food Waste

Chinese netizens have launched an online campaign against wasting food and called on people to take their leftovers home after banquets as well as other measures to curb such waste. Dubbed eating up your dishes, the move not only echoes the central g

英闻天下——582 Couple Arrested for Helping Migrants Buy Tickets

A couple in Guangdong was detained for booking train tickets online and selling them for 10 yuan extra to migrant workers who want to return home for Spring Festival. But migrant workers say they feel sorry for the couple. Last year China's railway s

英闻天下——581 Chinese Driver Hits Policeman to Escape Punishment

A driver hit a traffic policeman to escape punishment in Zhengzhou City, central China's Henan Province. The unidentified female driver was asked to pull over when she ran the red light, but she refused to show her driving license. Then she suddenly

英闻天下——580 Children Welfare System Needs to be Established

A month-long nationwide inspection of orphanages run by individuals and private operators is carried out throughout China after a private orphanage fire in Henan Province claimed seven lives. China is struggling to upgrade children's welfare by estab

英闻天下——578 Going Home by Carpooling

Yuan Feng is one of the founders of the carpooling website. He says many of his schoolmates fail to get a train ticket during the Spring Festival travel season so he set up the website with 11 schoolmates. By spending 50,000 yuan setting up the websi

英闻天下——579 Migrant Workers Struggle to Collect Unpaid Wages

Year after year, disappointment is the only result they get in the end. Asking for their legal pay has never been easy for Chinese migrant workers. According to statistics from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the number of migran

英闻天下——591 Former Official under Custody for Owning 29 Houses

A former housing official in central China's Henan Province has been detained after being found to own 29 properties. Zhai Haifeng, the former director of the local housing administration bureau in Zhengzhou city has been accused online of being enga

英闻天下——590 China to Overhaul Non-government Orphanages

China's civil authorities are to overhaul the non-government orphanages nationwide after a deadly fire in central China's Henan province. The month-long campaign is to inspect private orphanages after seven children were killed in a fire at an orphan

英闻天下——589 China to Reform Re-education through Labor System

The Chinese government will this year push through the reform of its re-education through labor system, according to a national political and legal work conference held in Beijing on Monday. The controversial system presently allows police to detain

英闻天下——588 Doing Social Work: a Popular Lifestyle on Holiday

Collecting garbage or helping those less fortunate than yourself; social work like this is now a popular choice for young city dwellers to spend their leisure time. Gao Peng volunteers at care centers for the elderly in his spare time. He helps with

英闻天下——587 New Measures to Facilitate Train Tickets Purchase

Chinese passengers started to buy train tickets for the Spring Festival travel season at the booths on Wednesday. This year, railway operators have adopted several measures to facilitate the purchase of train tickets ahead of the Spring Festival, the

英闻天下——586 Postgraduates Have No Edge in Job Market

At some job fairs in recent years, it has been very common to see hundreds of postgraduate students competing for one position. Many complain that it's very difficult to get employed nowadays. This year I felt it has been extremely hard to find a job