Deep under Shanghai, workers on a flood-lit construction rig carefully install massive concrete wall sections for a new subway tunnel, adding metre-by-metre to the world’s longest metro system. The Shanghai metro’s future Line 14 is part of plans to extend the already sprawling network another 35 percent by 2020 to 830 kilometres (515 miles) — … Read more
The chairman of a Chinese insurance group that sought a business deal with the family of US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law has stepped aside following a report that he was taken away by authorities. Officials from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission notified Anbang that Wu was “taken away” on Friday, but they did not explain … Read more
Chinese social media users on Sunday angrily criticised a Shanghai government crackdown on unauthorised real estate activity after images emerged online showing an apparent protest in the city over the restrictions. Pictures and video have circulated showing hundreds of people engaged in a tense stand-off with police, said to have taken place late Saturday night … Read more
A stream little more than a metre wide separates them, but for at least three centuries a bitter rivalry pitted two eastern Chinese villages against one another — until love brought the adversaries together. Wushan and Yuepu in Fujian province, which count between them some 7,500 inhabitants, used to observe an unusual tradition whereby people … Read more
‘The opposite of love is not hatred, it is indifference”, so the saying goes. Experience and our grey-haired men should constantly remind us that, a nation that decides to play the proverbial rope which proudly perched around the creeping plant and paid deaf ear to the deafening noise of the recalcitrant bird, despite several complaints … Read more