Tag Archives: Yangtse Evening Post

Chinese universities add emerging industry programs

Posted on 2011-02-16 by Joel Martinsen

The Yangtse Evening Post reports on college programs in the Internet of Things (物联网).

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Alert: Recycled color contact lenses may damage your eyes!

Posted on 2011-01-10 by Eric Mu

Yangtse Evening Post: the newspaper alerts readers that many colored contact lens in the market are recycled ones imported from abroad and may cause damage to users’ eyes.

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Today’s dose of the paranormal: Stargates and UFOs

Posted on 2010-11-26 by Joel Martinsen

Yangtse Evening Post turns its eye on a “stargate” in the Gulf of Aden and a vortex off the coast of Norway.

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Dodgy fetal gender prediction kit popular among Chinese new mothers

Posted on 2010-11-15 by Eric Mu

Yangtse Evening Post: The 780 yuan testing kit purportedly uses American technology and enables users to detect fetal gender by analyzing the hormone constitution in the mother’s urine six weeks into pregnancy. It also claims to have the endorsement of American FDA.

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Porcelain Pagoda to be rebuilt

Posted on 2010-11-09 by Joel Martinsen

Wang Jianlin donates a billion RMB to reconstruct the Da Bao’en Temple, which was destroyed in the Taiping Rebellion.

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Please open your door to census takers

Posted on 2010-11-02 by Alice Xin Liu

Today’s Yangtse Evening Post focuses on its own iPad version; in other news the census officially started yesterday, the first since 2000. The top of the Yangtse Evening Post urges citizens to Please open your door when the census taker comes.

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A Nanjing without news kiosks

Posted on 2010-11-02 by Joel Martinsen

A Nanjing newsstand (see story #11 ) Nanjing has decided that news kiosks are a blight on the city. Erected on the roadway, they create yet another unnecessary obstacle to the growing number of cars on the streets. Moved to … Continue reading →

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Spot the newspaper that reported the Nanjing factory explosion

Posted on 2010-07-29 by Alice Xin Liu

One paper prints a huge picture that no other does.

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Bawang Group in license-sharing scandal

Posted on 2010-07-21 by Alice Xin Liu

An interesting headline is related to the Bawang Chinese herbal shampoo scandal. The license for the product is for a product called Litao anti-hair loss shampoo (丽涛防脱洗发液), a product that had already expired, according to the State Food and Drug Administration website.

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Gaokao redux

Posted on 2010-06-08 by Joel Martinsen

The Luoyang Evening News lifts a front-page layout from the Yangtse Evening Post.

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