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China
Almost 200 Chinese Pilots Falsified Their Flight Experience
It’s not just fake designer handbags and knock off shiny Rolex watches that people can master. Now it seems pilot licenses can also be added to the list.
China Could Overthrow One-Child Rule
The Chinese government is beginning to rethink its famed one-child limit as it begins to lift the restriction in five provinces with low birth rates.
How Do Textbooks Around the World Lie to Children?
Back to school for you, kids! If you’re American, you might be spoon-fed the (historically dubious) notion that the Founding Fathers explicitly wanted us to be a Christian nation. But it could be worse: You could live somewhere else!
China’s Massive Traffic Jam: Already Gone?
So much for it lasting up to a month.
Epic Traffic Jam in China Enters Its 9th Day
Nothing is worse than sitting in traffic, right? How about sitting in traffic for nine days?
Quotes: China Now Second-Largest World Economy
“This is just the beginning. China is still a developing country. So it has a lot of room to grow.”
— WANG TAO, economist at UBS in Beijing, on China overtaking Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy, now behind …
More Than 10,000 Chinese People Break Human-Domino Record
It looks like there’s a world record for everything.
Did Powdered Milk From China Cause Baby Girls to Grow Breasts?
China’s Health Ministry has ordered an investigation into claims that powdered baby milk caused girls — as young as four months old — to grow breasts.
Tibetan Mastiffs: Dogs That Fetch $600,000 in China
Meet the Tibetan mastiff. This breed can measure up to three feet tall and weigh up to 180 pounds. And in China, these dogs are all the rage.
Giant Panda Accidently Gassed in China
This just might be the saddest news you will hear today—a giant panda, living in China’s Jinan Zoo, died after accidently being gassed with carbon monoxide and chlorine.
Pornography Freed from Great Chinese Firewall
Is it a mistake? Chinese Internet users aren’t sure. All they know is that for the past eight weeks, pornography sites that had been blocked by government mandate are now available online.