https://www.scmp.com/rss/327357/feed Natalie Koh is a news editor on the China desk at the South China Morning Post. She was previously a social media specialist and journalist at The Business Times, Singapore. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com From love cabbages and dancing in the park to wry comments about the “patriotic virus”, bored Wuhan residents locked down due to coronavirus have turned to gallows humour to boost morale. The central Chinese city, along with several others in Hubei province, has been sealed off by a government-imposed quarantine since January 23 after scientists discovered a new strain of coronavirus believed to have originated at a seafood market. The virus has killed at least 259 people in mainland China and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3048526/chinese-locked-down-coronavirus-epicentre-wuhan-fight-despair?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3048526/chinese-locked-down-coronavirus-epicentre-wuhan-fight-despair?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Feb 2020 07:00:22 +0000 Two primary school pupils have died and two were injured in a knife attack at a primary school in south central China. The incident occurred at 7.16am on Wednesday at Wanquan Elementary School in the town of Baijiaping, Ningyuan county, Hunan province. The injured pupils were taken to hospital and were being treated for non life-threatening injuries. A 31-year-old male, surnamed Zheng, who came from Baijiaping, was arrested in connection with the incident. Police said investigations were... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3004450/chinese-man-held-after-two-children-die-and-two-are-injured?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3004450/chinese-man-held-after-two-children-die-and-two-are-injured?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Apr 2019 05:43:44 +0000 Police have arrested a man after he shot and killed five people in China’s northern Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Monday. The man killed people in three different locations between 3.30pm and 4.20pm, the authorities said. The Beijing News reported that the man was arrested after police shot and wounded him in Kailu county, Tongliao city. It said firearms and ammunition were confiscated from him. Police did not describe the man or say whether anyone else was injured, Associated Press... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3003257/police-shoot-gunman-after-he-kills-five-northern-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3003257/police-shoot-gunman-after-he-kills-five-northern-china?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 Mar 2019 03:32:27 +0000 Several pupils were attacked outside a primary school in northern China on Thursday. Police said the incident took place in Fengrun district in the city of Tangshan, Hebei province, at about 1.30pm. It was not clear how many pupils were wounded or how their wounds were inflicted. According to video footage obtained by the South China Morning Post, a suspect was arrested by police next to a pool of blood on the ground. He could be heard saying, “Beat me to death, just beat me to death”, in the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3001712/chinese-police-detain-suspect-after-several-children-are?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3001712/chinese-police-detain-suspect-after-several-children-are?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:00:10 +0000 China’s second highest-grossing film, The Wandering Earth , will be streaming on Netflix soon, the media company said on Wednesday. It was not clear when the film will be released, but Netflix said it would be translated into 28 languages. “Audiences from over 190 countries will soon meet The Wandering Earth on Netflix,” director Frant Gwo, known better as Guo Fan in China, said. “I am glad that our movie can reach to people from different parts of the world. To my surprise, this movie resonated... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2187259/chinas-science-fiction-blockbuster-wandering-earth-seeks-out-new?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2187259/chinas-science-fiction-blockbuster-wandering-earth-seeks-out-new?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 22 Feb 2019 06:23:50 +0000 A child from southwest China who told his parents he had been kidnapped as a ruse to get out of doing his homework has appeared in a viral video recounting his “ordeal” to the police. The 10-year-old from the town of Shaying in Chongqing claimed he was abducted while on his way to school on January 17. In the video, which was credited to the municipal public security bureau and widely shared on social media, the child, which appears to be a boy, says he was dragged into a van by a man and a... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2184334/chinese-police-shame-child-10-claiming-hed-been-abducted-get-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2184334/chinese-police-shame-child-10-claiming-hed-been-abducted-get-out?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:52:56 +0000 Chefs who smoke in the kitchen or fail to wash their hands are being targeted in eastern China, where local authorities are using artificial intelligence technology to catch them in the act. The system works by recognising poor hygiene habits that are caught on camera and sending an alert to the administrators via a mobile application, news site Thepaper.cn reported on Friday. It was developed for authorities in Shaoxing, a city in Zhejiang, based on a six-year project in the province called... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2183665/artificial-intelligence-system-used-catch-unhygienic-chefs-action?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2183665/artificial-intelligence-system-used-catch-unhygienic-chefs-action?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:44:05 +0000 An Indian government minister who said the country would not develop as quickly as China or Singapore because it allowed people to protest has been hit by a public backlash. Giriraj Singh, the junior minister responsible for small enterprises, told an investor summit in Gujarat that those countries did not have places where people were able to “gather to protest against the policies of the government”. He added: “Neither [Singapore] nor China has a Jantar Mantar” – referring to a popular site... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2183210/too-many-protests-prevent-india-becoming-china-or-singapore-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2183210/too-many-protests-prevent-india-becoming-china-or-singapore-says?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:32:54 +0000 It is that time of year again, when hundreds of millions of people will travel across China by rail, road, plane and, in some cases, on foot, to reunite with their families in their hometowns for the Lunar New Year. In this year’s Spring Festival travel season, known as chunyun in China, a total of 2.99 billion trips are expected to take place, up 0.6 per cent from 2018. The season runs from January 21 to March 1, with the first day of the Year of the Pig on February 5. As with previous years,... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2183049/3-billion-trips-40-days-china-begins-lunar-new-year-mass?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2183049/3-billion-trips-40-days-china-begins-lunar-new-year-mass?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:00:35 +0000 This week China felt the heat from Egypt – again – after a replica of the Great Sphinx, the famous limestone statue which has stood on the west bank of the River Nile for more than 4,000 years, resurfaced at a culture park in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. The full-size copy of the ancient statue, built in 2014 as a film prop, was originally dismantled in 2016 at Cairo’s request, but now it’s back and Egyptian authorities are not happy. While high-street goods are the most common targets for... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2150321/fake-views-check-out-chinas-top-10-copies-famous-structures-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2150321/fake-views-check-out-chinas-top-10-copies-famous-structures-and?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 12 Jun 2018 04:40:21 +0000