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'Choking Smog' Shuts Down Huge Chinese City

Pollution reading way beyond dangerous level

(Newser) - The northeastern Chinese city of Harbin, population 11 million, has virtually shut down today thanks to air pollution; the smog is so heavy in places that you can't see beyond about 30 feet. It's this bad: "We were all late for class today because we couldn't...

Anti-Shark Fin Soup Campaign Goes Viral in China

Thanks to support from celebs like Yao Ming

(Newser) - Just a few years ago, most Chinese people were oblivious to the environmental problems caused by eating shark fin soup, reports the Washington Post . But thanks to widespread public awareness campaigns, backed by celebrities and business leaders, the country is finally losing its appetite for the dish, and both the...

Meet a Professional Chain-Smoker

Li Hui has a controversial job

(Newser) - Every morning, Li Hui comes to work, sits at her desk, and smokes a cigarette. Then she smokes another. And another, right up until quitting time, puffing about 30 a day. For 21 years now, Li has been a professional tobacco appraiser for Heilongjiang Tobacco in China, the Global Times...

Couple Sells Baby, Buys iPhone
 Couple Sells Baby, Buys iPhone 
prosecutors say
Oct 18, 2013 1:02 PM CDT

Couple Sells Baby, Buys iPhone

Prosecutors accuse couple of human trafficking

(Newser) - Prosecutors in China say a young couple illegally put their baby up for adoption online, accepted money for her ... and then used that money to buy an iPhone and expensive shoes, among other things. It's not clear how much the couple received, but AFP reports that online postings referred...

Number of Slaves on the Planet: 30M

Victims in 162 countries; half are in India

(Newser) - Slavery continues to afflict almost 30 million people across the planet—in every one of 162 countries surveyed in a new report. India is home to 13.9 million slaves, by far the largest number; relative to population, however, Mauritania has the highest rate, with 4% of the population enslaved...

China Fires Official—Over Piggyback Ride

Image sparked a firestorm on social media

(Newser) - A Chinese official has been fired for getting a piggyback ride over floodwaters, state Xinhua news agency reports. The local authority, referred to by his surname, Wang, was visiting flood victims in the city of Yuyao, Zhejiang province. He was wearing fancy shoes, and when he prepared to take them...

In China's Troubled Food, Chicken Butt, Feathers Lurk

'Guardian' rounds up some pretty disgusting ingredients

(Newser) - Despite occasional attempts to crack down, food scandals in China are a persistent—and gross—problem, the Guardian finds in a round-up of the country's recent food scandals. In Jiangsu province, 16 men have been handed hefty prison sentences for making and selling "poisonous and harmful" cooking oil...

A New Hangover Cure?
 A New Hangover Cure? 
in case you missed it
Oct 12, 2013 7:00 PM CDT

A New Hangover Cure?

Sprite helps get rid of headache-causing chemical: study

(Newser) - Next time you're fumbling for a hangover cure, you might want to reach for a bottle of soda. Researchers in China have found that Sprite beats a pain-relieving Chinese hemp tea at giving you a post-alcohol lift. Why? Popular Science begins the explanation with a primer: Your body processes...

US Default Would 'Blow Lehman Out of the Water'

US has 23 times the debt

(Newser) - If you think we saw a global financial disaster with the collapse of Lehman five years ago, just wait and see what happens if the US government defaults on its debt, warn financial experts. Lehman was $517 billion in debt—the US owes $12 trillion. The unprecedented event would cripple...

Typhoon Slams China, Kills 2
 Typhoon Slams China, Kills 2 
Oct 7, 2013 8:13 AM CDT

Typhoon Slams China, Kills 2

More than half a million people evacuated

(Newser) - A typhoon slammed into southeastern China today with powerful winds and heavy rains that killed two people, cut power, canceled flights, and suspended train services. Typhoon Fitow struck Fuding, in Fujian province, with winds of up to 94mph in the early morning hours, then slowed before weakening to a tropical...

China's Rules for Tourists: Please Flush, No Spitting

Also don't pick your nose in public, says the Guidebook for Civilized Tourism

(Newser) - China's latest legislative wonder is calling for citizens to please flush, and refrain from spitting. It's all part of a 64-page Guidebook for Civilized Tourism, part of a new tourism law, that seeks to crack down on rowdy Chinese abroad to clean up China's image, CNN reports....

Boy, 2, Has His Own Twin Removed From Stomach
Boy, 2, Has His Own Twin Removed From Stomach
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Oct 6, 2013 6:37 AM CDT

Boy, 2, Has His Own Twin Removed From Stomach

Parasitic fetus was 10 inches wide

(Newser) - When Xiao Feng was admitted to a hospital in China with an extremely swollen stomach, doctors made a pretty disturbing find: The 2-year-old boy was carrying his own twin inside his stomach. The undeveloped fetus acted as a parasite, growing until it took up two-thirds of Feng's stomach, Inquisitr...

Giant Hornets Are Killing People in China
 Giant Hornets Are 
 Killing People in China 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Sep 29, 2013 10:22 AM CDT

Giant Hornets Are Killing People in China

28 dead, 18 in one city alone

(Newser) - As many as 28 people have died and hundreds more have been injured in a wave of giant hornet attacks in China, the Guardian reports. Eighteen of the fatalities occurred in the city of Ankang alone. The stings are believed to be the work of the Asian giant hornet or...

92 Abducted Kids Rescued in China

But some say it's just a drop in the ocean

(Newser) - Raids on a kidnapping operation in China has resulted in the rescue of 92 abducted children, a state-run media organization reports. The kids were rescued along with two women, while 300 gang members were arrested, reports the Xinhua news agency, per AFP . Kidnappers stole children in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces,...

Man Grows New Nose ... on His Forehead

Not your average nose job

(Newser) - A 22-year-old man in China needed a new nose. So a surgeon has built him one ... on his forehead. The surgeon, Guo Zhihui from Fujian Medical University Union Hospital, constructed the second nose out of cartilage from the man's ribs, then put it under the skin on his forehead...

China Dropping Facebook Ban—in Part of One City

Banned sites allowed in Shanghai free-trade zone

(Newser) - Chinese authorities hope the new Shanghai free-trade zone will cement the city's place as a financial center, in spite of a potential drag on worker productivity—the zone will be the only place in China where banned social media sites including Facebook and Twitter are allowed, sources tell the...

China Buys 7.4M Acres of Ukraine

Will farm an area roughly the size of Massachusetts

(Newser) - As demand for food grows in China— and farmland shrinks —the country has signed a deal with Ukraine that will eventually see it plowing into 3 million hectares (that's about 7.4 million acres) of the Ukrainian farmland. China will initially receive 100,000 hectares—an area about...

Dozens Killed as Typhoon Lashes South China

But Hong Kong escapes direct hit

(Newser) - The most ferocious typhoon so far this year has killed at least 25 people in southern China's Guangdong province. Typhoon Usagi—classed as a "super typhoon" before landfall sapped its strength—had been headed directly for Hong Kong, which was braced for its worst storm in decades , but...

China Sentences Bo Xilai to Life

Onetime party boss will likely appeal, and lose

(Newser) - Capping a dizzying downfall, a Chinese court has slapped onetime political rock star Bo Xilai with a life sentence in prison after convicting him of corruption and abuse of power. "Bo Xilai was a servant of the state, he abused his power, causing huge damage to the country and...

Woman Rescued After 2 Weeks in Well

Survived on corn

(Newser) - Grasping onto nearby stalks of corn as she tripped into an abandoned well may not have stopped Su Qixiu's fall, but it probably did save her life. Su (alternately described by the media as 38 and 48 years old) fell into the well in central China while out picking...

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