What did Jackie Chan say?

Action star Jackie Chan’s name has translated into big bucks at the box office, but he’s not immune to controversy. Chan’s recent sympathetic message on Twitter to Filipinosout the hostage crisis in Manila aroused heavy criticism in Hong Kong.

Safety belt button, a small toy but a huge social problem

A seat belt button is becoming popular in China, but for the wrong reasons, experts warn.

Buffet’s leson in charity for China – Can Buffet and Gates persuade China’s rich to give back?

While China’s billionaires are busy investing their money to pave the way for their companies to become multinationals, American billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have announced that they will come to China next month to ask the country’s rich to donate at least half of their wealth, according to AFP.

Award kept for controversial ‘corpse photo’

The controversial news photo “Holding onto a Corpse and Demanding Money,” which won China’s top news photography prize last week, has been deemed authentic by authorities despite claims to the contrary.

Fight against disposable chopsticks rises again

China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC), along with the National Development and Reform Committee (NDRC), Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) and four other ministries, released a notice in June requiring local governments to carry out stricter restrictions on companies that make disposable chopsticks.

Pure and pretty girls hard to find in China?

There are more than 1.3 billion people in China, but movie director Zhang Yimou lamented recently that it was difficult to find a pure and simple-hearted girl in China today.

Radio exercises result in controversy

On August 8, the second anniversary of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Beijing Municipal Federation of Workers’ Unions appealed for 4 million municipal government officials and workers to resume their “public gymnastics exercises” dropped in 2007 in the lead-up to the Olympics.

Commercial match fails locals

Public napping, a lack of star players and poor match quality disappointed Beijing soccer fans who went to the Bird’s Nest to see last Sunday night’s friendly match between Barcelona and Beijing’s Guo’an.

Guangzhou and Hong Kong support Cantonese

Hundreds of people gathered in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, over the last two weekends to protest the local government’s popularizing of Mandarin while holding back Cantonese. Two hundred people also assembled in Hong Kong on Sunday to show their support.

Man fined 46,000 for failure to return lost diamond ring

The Beijing Second Intermediate Court on Monday fined Zhang Peng (pseudonym) 46,000 yuan for failing to return a diamond engagement ring he found on the street.