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Beijing has missed its goals in saving the younger generation from overweight, shortsightedness and emotional and behavioural problems despite efforts to ease students’ burden in the past decade, according to [...]

A court in Zhejiang province has heard the case of a man who is charged with murder for ­poisoning his wife of just two months to claim her insurance policy. [...]

A well-known producer has ­questioned the legality of a recent blacklist of celebrities by an ­industry association, marking a rare public disagreement with the government’s crackdown on “poorly behaved” entertainers. [...]

China’s notoriously gruelling ­academic culture is once again in the cross hairs after the son of a famous economist committed suicide in Shenzhen at the end of November. The father, [...]

The detention of a woman in northeast China for assaulting her mother, 79, has highlighted the prevalence of elderly abuse on the mainland. According to a video that went viral [...]

Having lived in Asia for a decade as a freelance journalist, American Erin Hale has realised she has to learn Chinese to get where she wants to be in life. [...]

A wildlife park in the eastern city of Hangzhou has reopened to ­visitors after arousing national outrage when the random sighting of escaped leopards revealed a cover-up. The Hangzhou Safari [...]

It can be almost impossible to sell a property in Asia after an 'unnatural death' happened there, but a group of intrepid freelancers will make sure the place is not [...]

Beijing's culture authority has ­ordered the entertainment industry to guarantee underage performers finish compulsory education and banned minors from participating in activities that support their idols amid an ongoing crackdown [...]

A graduate of one of the top 10 engineering research universities has had his master's degree ­revoked and his supervising tutor fired after his dissertation was found to be a [...]

A four-month-old baby girl was taken to hospital yesterday after a viral video of her living in squalor brought into question how social welfare programmes should ­handle poor families with [...]

At a toy shop inside a busy shopping centre in Shanghai's Jingan Temple area, rows of brightly packaged vaping devices and fruit-flavoured e-liquids occupied an entire shelf in front of [...]

Li Yundi, China's 'prince of ­piano', has been suddenly boycotted and banned from posting online after police announced he had been detained on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute. The police [...]

A video app has changed the name and artwork of a new game show originally called Squid ­Victory after being slammed ­online for copying Netflix's hit show Squid Game. Youku, [...]

The former partner of Zheng ­Shuang, who has run afoul of ­regulators, has been fined more than 32 million yuan (HK$39million) for helping the disgraced actress evade taxes. The Shanghai [...]

A Chinese artist's attempt to alert people to the food waste problem on the mainland has angered the public after he threw 1,000 grains of 'golden rice' into Shanghai's Huangpu [...]

At least five people are dead and 120,000 people displaced after days of heavy downpours led to floods and landslides in the ­northern province of Shanxi. The largely arid province [...]

Mainland authorities have ­realised that young people do not want to get married, and have the babies that traditionally come with starting a family. Despite a public push to ­incentivise [...]

More than 100 puppies and ­kittens believed to have been bought online as 'blind boxes' were found abandoned in ­suburban Shanghai earlier this week, the latest case in the ­mainland's [...]

If a gold medal at the Olympics is the top honour for an athlete, the next most prestigious accolade in China may well be success at the National Games. Once, [...]

An 18-year-old with congenital muscular dystrophy who aspires to become China's Stephen Hawking has become a celebrity after being accepted by the ­country's leading university in astronautics. Xing Yifan, who [...]

Universal Studios' new park in Beijing is facing a backlash after it announced the price of tickets, with some costing more than 700 yuan (HK$843). Jointly owned by the Beijing [...]

A gigantic statue of ancient general Guan Yu in central China is being dismantled, after Beijing called it vain and wasteful and ordered its removal last year. Workers in Jingzhou, [...]

Thousands of privately owned kindergartens went out of business last year, with analysts and business owners blaming the ­coronavirus and a low birth rate. Official data released last week showed [...]

Seven primary school children who form the mainland's ­youngest boy band, have been forced to rebrand ­themselves as a children's art troupe after accusations of child exploitation. The agency behind [...]

The family of a man who was killed and buried under a playground by several mobsters in central China in 2003 has pledged to sue a film production team that [...]

Some mainland children are being injected with human growth hormone by parents hoping to make them taller out of concerns that being short might hinder their offsprings' future. The trend [...]

Two people who contracted ­Covid-19 are now fighting online rumours they were cheating on their partners after their movements were posted online as part of the government's routine ­contact tracing [...]

Chinese social media platforms including WeChat and Douyin have removed the personal and business accounts of Kris Wu after the pop star was ­detained in Beijing on Saturday on suspicion [...]

The case of a 68-year-old man who was allegedly slapped in the face and strapped to his wheelchair before dying in a nursing home in Liaoning has reignited concerns over [...]

Business owners and residents in the city of Zhengzhou, which has been hit by severe flooding, have given a helping hand to those ­affected by the natural disaster in the [...]

What qualification does one need to process tobacco leaves and roll cigarettes on a factory floor? In central Henan province, the job is being done by people with master's degrees. [...]

A man in the western Chongqing ­municipality allegedly killed his two young children by throwing them out of his high-rise flat so he could start a 'new family', legal documents [...]

For Wang Huaiying, the elders in her home village cared a lot about having a male heir. Families she grew up around would often have three or four children in [...]

A man who became a figure of ­national sympathy after the death of his family has turned into an object of scorn since he ­announced he had fallen in love [...]

When Deng Yonggang was a younger man, he was one of the millions of coal-covered faces that helped power China's galloping economy. But in 2002, a major ­accident at his [...]

A schoolgirl in Shenzhen has taken a trip to fame with her skills in ­fixing cars, sparking a heated ­debate on gender boundaries at work and the value of vocational [...]

A Chinese professor has become an overnight celebrity for sharing his feelings of helplessness about how to help his daughter perform academically. Professor Zhang Xiaoqiang from Chongqing University in western [...]