Category Archives: Front Page of the Day

It’s the law: Chengguan in Guangzhou now have to be nice

Posted on 2013-10-15 by Barry van Wyk

Better late than never: new regulations in force from today in Guangzhou require all chengguan in the city to be courteous in the enforcement of their duties and to use words like “please”, “thank you” and “I’m sorry”. The new regulations, entitled … Continue reading →

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Shenzhen bans “skew weeing”

Posted on 2013-09-02 by Barry van Wyk

Errant weeing will no longer be tolerated in Shenzhen. From yesterday, new regulations made any instance of uncivilized behavior in public bathrooms in the city liable to a 100 yuan fine. As Shenzhen Evening Newsreports today, however, enforcing straight weeing is … Continue reading →

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Bo Xilai outshone by “people’s judge” Zhai Shuquan

Posted on 2013-08-23 by Johan van de Ven

Yesterday, August 22nd, Bo Xilai’s trial got underway in Jinan, Shandong Province. Accused of accepting bribes, corruption, and abuse of office, Bo gave a spirited defence of himself while frequent posts on the court’s official Weibo feed sparked animated discussions … Continue reading →

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China’s two greatest Internet rumor mongers and “black PR” philanderers arrested

Posted on 2013-08-22 by Neil Thomas

Although the entire foreign press corps and many Chinese Internet users are focused on the trial of Bo Xilairight now, many newspapers and websites are devoting space to a news story and propaganda campaign about online “rumor mongering”. Two suspected rumor … Continue reading →

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Xue Manzi: How Chinese social media can be a force for good

Posted on 2013-08-20 by Neil Thomas

Update August 25: Soon after this was published, Xue Manzi ran into trouble with the police. See this Shanghaiist story: Chinese-American investor Charles Xue arrested in Beijing in ‘prostitution’ sting. It seems that other social media figures are also being targeted … Continue reading →

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Chengguan go easy on man who constructed Beijing’s “most awesome illegal building”

Posted on 2013-08-16 by Johan van de Ven

The news has been dominated in recent days with stories relating to the somehow sudden discovery of a three-story villa covered in shrubbery sitting atop a 26-story building in western Beijing. Now, as construction (or rather, deconstruction) workers set about … Continue reading →

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“Cash and gifts” will get your child into the right class

Posted on 2013-08-13 by Neil Thomas

Last year the New York Times published an exposé on the culture of corruption in the Chinese schools admissions system, with rich parents able to buy their children into the best schools. But less well documented is that parents with children in primary and … Continue reading →

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“Temperature warriors” take on China’s heat wave

Posted on 2013-08-09 by Johan van de Ven

The front page of the Nanhu Evening News tells us today that “The news that everyone is paying attention to right now is the heat.” This has been the case for the past few weeks. As we covered on Danwei, newspapers in … Continue reading →

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“Are you still prostrating yourself before foreign milk powder?”

Posted on 2013-08-06 by Neil Thomas

The vast majority of Chinese daily newspapers yesterday featured the massive New Zealand milk powder product recall as a front page story, most as either the leading headline or as a large and prominent graphic feature. The imagery is very … Continue reading →

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Is Shanghai’s current heatwave even hotter than the notorious summer of 1934?

Posted on 2013-07-30 by Hans Gaebler

A dead heat has settled in to large parts of southern China, and images of fiery thermometers and children splashing in pools have cropped up on front pages of newspapers around China alongside headlines exclaiming record-breaking temperatures, as can be … Continue reading →

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