When the Shanghai party chief wrote back to the relative of a cancer patient via online microblog this week it was seen as the latest example of Communist Party officials using social media to...
- Sat
- May 25, 2013
- Updated: 9:45pm
Trending topics
8 Jan 2012
China in Ten Words
by Yu Hua (translated by Allan Barr)
Pantheon
In 2009 Yu Hua wrote a piece in The New York Times to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 1989...
4:47AM
7 Jul 2011
It's the end of the line for Yu Hiu-tung. The Hong Kong ace will set a Davis Cup record tomorrow when he becomes the player with the most number of appearances - 22 - but revealed the tie...
2:12PM
28 Oct 2007
For the second time in under a year, an outsider with a privileged background will run the mainland's commercial capital, with the appointment of 62-year-old Yu Zhengsheng as Shanghai's Communist...
9:13AM
15 Apr 2007
Yu daan (fish balls) are probably Hong Kong's most popular roadside snack.
1:52AM
24 Jul 2006
Governor says big pits will take over smaller ones
Large coal mines in Shanxi province will operate or acquire smaller competitors from next year as part of a plan to better manage...
12:10AM
Shanxi aims to reduce the number of blasts from illegally stored explosives by asking the country's high court to endorse tougher penalties for people illegally producing, selling, transporting...
11:26PM
Leading mainland author Yu Hua's stories revolve around sensitive topics such as sex, violence and the mainland's political upheavals, but his works have always managed to get through the censors...
6:49PM
Boom apprentice Alex Yu has arrived.
The question now is whether the talented youngster can hold his own in the senior ranks after outriding his claim on the back of yesterday's...
9:38PM
In Case You Missed It
Login
SCMP.com Account
or
Log in using a partner site
Log in using your Facebook account. What's this?
Don't have an SCMP.com account? Subscribe Now!