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A Chinese university has sacked a male employee for comments on social media that women employees are lazy and use childcare and family responsibilities as an excuse to avoid doing work.

A Chinese university has sacked a male employee for comments on social media that women employees are lazy and use childcare and family responsibilities as an excuse to avoid doing work. The School of Education at Ningbo University in Zhejiang province, eastern China, announced it had terminated the employment of the man, surnamed Li, after his “inappropriate comments” had caused...

A primary school teacher in China has been fired after insulting a student’s mother over her son’s academic performance, calling the woman a “peasant” and mocking her working-class background and level of education. The head teacher at a school in Fujian province, southeastern China, publicly humiliated the student’s mother in a parent-teacher WeChat group around May 20. She was dismissed...

A Taiwanese singer whose sudden rise to fame two decades ago and then abrupt disappearance from public life has experienced a resurgence in popularity in China this week after she appeared on a mainland TV reality show. Cyndi Wang Xinling is participating as a contestant in season three of the popular girl group reality show Sisters Who Make Waves season...

Chinese authorities are still searching for a three-year-old boy who went missing after falling into a manhole last week. The incident occurred when the boy was walking beside his father towards their car in a suburb of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, northwestern China, last Thursday (May 12) evening in the rain, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The boy's mother and sister were...

A man turned up at a hospital in southern China with a bleeding penis after he performed a circumcision on himself at home. The man, in his 20s, said he had bought surgical equipment for the procedure online, the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported. He carried out the procedure without any anaesthetics or disinfectant prior, he told doctors at a hospital...

Public health crises are challenging for governments and health systems. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has presented huge challenges to humans worldwide. In the context of COVID-19 in China, we explore China’s control strategies and challenges. Accordingly, we identify the causes of those challenges, including social and natural factors, and the controls put in place. We contend that China’s control strategies slowed the spread of the global pandemic and that the Chinese vaccines have ...

A video of a wife letting her husband hang from a door frame by a safety belt to punish him for not wearing a safety harness while working at height a few days earlier has been a hit on Douyin, China’s version of TikTok. “Are you or are you not aware of the importance of safety?” The woman scolded her...

[commodity price movements may increase the risk of future inflation] Federal Reserve Chairman Colin Powell has made it clear that the Fed will take action to cool the worst inflation in nearly 40 years, including a possible rate hike in March. and more frequent and larger rate increases than expected. With money markets expected to raise interest rates nearly five times this year, traders are now increasing their bets on rising borrowing costs.

A Chinese father who donated his nine-year-old daughter’s organs after she died from injuries caused by an accident at her school said the school has apologised to him and vowed to strengthen safety management. Huang Qin’s daughter, nicknamed Tongtong, died three months ago after being knocked down by a classmate in the corridor of their primary school in Qinzhou, Guangxi...