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Review: 'Tomorrow in Shanghai,' by May-lee Chai

The third story in May-lee Chai's collection "Tomorrow in Shanghai" is titled "The Monkey King of Sichuan." In it, two graduate school friends (Grace and Esther) reunite after many years apart and Grace reveals that she was sexually harassed by a famous professor when they were students.

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‘It’s getting extremely hard’: climate crisis forces China to ration electricity

Forest fires, droughts and heatwaves across the country is forcing provinces to reduce power consumption

The Guardian - UK

'It felt like my insides were crying': China COVID curbs hit youth mental health

HONG KONG Reuters) - Zhang Meng had a breakdown last December. The 20-year-old found herself sobbing on the stairs of her dorm, driven to despair by repeated COVID lockdowns of her university campus in Beijing.

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EV battery giant touts longer range

SHANGHAI: The world’s biggest electric vehicle (EV) battery maker says it is working on new materials that would enable a vehicle to travel 700 kilometres on a single charge.

Bangkok Post

Sending suspect to China could cost New Zealand millions

Sending a murder suspect to face trial in China could end up costing New Zealand taxpayers millions of dollars because officials would need to post an extra diplomat to Shanghai to monitor his treatment, documents exclusively obtained by The Associated Press show

The Independent UK

‘I didn’t imagine things to be this bad’: TikToker shares her experience with racism in China

Entry bans to public places, racist comments and death threats: For many foreigners in China, xenophobia has been a growing phenomenon during the pandemic. For a foreigner who is also a person of colour, the situation can be particularly bad. Our Observer, a student in Shanghai from the US, told…

France 24

Chinese tourists stranded in Tibet as coronavirus cases in China reach three-month high

Thousands of Chinese tourists are stranded in Tibet as the region suffers a spike in coronavirus cases and provinces impose restrictions on travel from the area.

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Expat maths teacher returns home to make mark on Lanarkshire comedy circuit

Michael Herd spent 14 years teaching in Shanghai where he honed his craft as a comedian by night

Daily Record

China sentences tycoon Xiao Jianhua to 13 years, fines his company $8.1 billion

A Shanghai court on Friday sentenced Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua, not seen in public since 2017, to 13 years in jail and fined his Tomorrow Holdings conglomerate 55.03 billion yuan ($8.1 billion), a record in China.

Reuters

Can China correct course on Covid, like Vietnam?

The world's two largest Communist countries have a lot in common. Just over a year ago, Vietnam's party leaders gave General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong an unprecedented third five-year term as the top leader, crediting him with successfully containing the Covid-19 pandemic. China's President Xi Jinping is poised to win…

Bangkok Post

Major cities blighted by nitrogen dioxide pollution, research finds

Shanghai, Moscow and Tehran have the highest levels of NO2 pollution, according to the research

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Chelsea star Oscar's transfer fail as Flamengo move blocked and he's trapped in China

Former Chelsea man Oscar finds himself stuck in China after his club, Shanghai SIPG, blocked a move to Flamengo despite the player posing in a shirt ahead of the planned switch

Daily Mirror

Crowds try to flee Shanghai Ikea store to avoid strict COVID-19 lockdown in China

Health authorities try to lock down customers at a Chinese Ikea store over an "abnormal" coronavirus test result as dozens of people flee.

ABC News

Ikea shoppers flee attempt to lock down store in Shanghai

Chaotic scenes at an Ikea in Shanghai saw panicked shoppers rush for the exits as authorities tried to lock down the store over a COVID-19 case.

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The Chinese dream of home ownership is crumbling. The economy could go with it

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Last November, hundreds of angry homeowners in Nanchang, the capital of China's Jiangxi province, gathered on the roof of an unfinished apartment building. From their perch, they unfurled red and white banners along the outer walls and chanted demands for completion of the homes they had already…

InsideEVs

Tesla Celebrates 1,000,000th Electric Car Produced In Shanghai

Tesla celebrates the 1 millionth electric car produced at the Tesla Giga Shanghai plant in China. The production began in late 2019.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Asian Shares Mixed after China Cuts Key Rate, Japan GDP Up

Shares were mixed in Asia on Monday after China's central bank cut a key interest rate and Japan reported its economy picked up momentum in the last quarter. Tokyo and Sydney advanced while Hong Kong, Shanghai and Bangkok fell. US futures edged lower early Monday, while oil prices declined. The…

Reuters

Shanghai to reopen all schools Sept. 1 as lockdown fears persist

China's financial hub Shanghai said on Sunday it would reopen all schools including kindergartens, primary and middle schools on Sept. 1 after months of COVID-19 closures.

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Shanghai extends weekly COVID-19 testing requirement until end of September

China's most populous city Shanghai has extended its weekly COVID-19 test requirement and extended free testing until the end of September in a bid to keep the virus in check, authorities announced on Saturday.

The Guardian - UK

‘I felt I was being assessed on my skin colour’: Black women around the world share their birth stories

From Rio to Reykjavik, London to Shanghai, Black women face a maternal health crisis. Six mothers share their stories of pregnancy, birth – and racism

Al Jazeera

‘China’s Hawaii’ promised escape. Tourists got lockdowns instead

Some 178,000 tourists are reportedly stranded in Hainan as the resort island battles its worst COVID outbreak yet.

Reuters

Escaping Shanghai's COVID lockdown only to get trapped in Hainan

Brian Hall fled Shanghai in June to avoid another lockdown of his residential compound, escaping to China's tropical tourist island of Hainan where he could work remotely as a public health professor after undertaking 10 days of quarantine.

Reuters

Analysis-More Chinese women delay or give up on having babies after zero-COVID ordeal

Seeing Chinese authorities exercise extraordinary powers during a stringent COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai earlier this year altered Claire Jiang's life plans: she no longer wants to have babies in China.

Bangkok Post

Chinese resort city Sanya locked down

SHANGHAI: The southern Chinese beach holiday city of Sanya imposed a lockdown on Saturday and shut its public transport system to try to stop a Covid-19 outbreak during its peak tourist season.

Daily Mirror

Child falls out of car window onto busy road as driver pulls away at junction

The terrifying clip shows the moment a young child topples out of the passenger-side window of a vehicle at an intersection in Ningbo, a city in eastern China just south of Shanghai

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