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A New York Times video investigation reveals new details about the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, a national hero who faced censorship after sounding an early alarm on Covid-19.

Shortly after midnight on March 18, a phone call awoke Steven Lee Myers in his Beijing apartment. The call was followed by a flurry of messages: WhatsApp, text, email. Friends and colleagues were asking him questions: What is going on? What does this mean? What are we going to do? Myers had been appointed The New York Times’ Beijing bureau chief just three months prior. Now,

Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Jul 27, 2021 China’s entertainment world has been shaken by a young woman’s accusation that singer-actor-model Kris Wu date raped her and other unnamed teenage girls. By coming forward, Du Meizhu, the 18-year-old accuser, may have reinvigorated China’s recently moribund #MeToo movement, which has been hamstrung by official censure. At The New York Times last week, Elsie Chen reported on Mr. Wu’s accuser is Du Meizhu, a university student in Beijing who said she first met him when she was 17. She said she had been invited to Mr. Wu’s home by his agent with...

Chinese millennials 'lying flat' doing nothing, worries Beijing ANI | Updated: Jul 05, 2021 08:39 IST Beijing [China], July 5 (ANI): Young people in China have set off a nascent counter-culture movement that involves lying down and doing as little as possible and Beijing is not happy about it. Five years ago, Luo Huazhong discovered that he enjoyed doing nothing. He quit his job as a factory worker in China, biked 1,300 miles from Sichuan Province to Tibet and decided he could get by on odd jobs and USD 60 a month from his savings. He called his new lifes...