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People in China express anger over Covid situation, praise health workers on social media

People from Zhejiang, Anhui and Chongqing have been sharing posts accompanied by relevant hashtags on social media platforms like Weibo and Xiaohongshu to discuss about authorities’ decision to allow workers to go back to work even when they suffer from mild symptoms of COVID

It’s Viral! Why Chinese pop singer Jane Zhang deliberately infected herself with COVID-19

As China battles a deadly COVID-19 wave, C-pop star Jane Zhang met infected people and caught the virus intentionally. But why? So that she would not face a risk of infection during her New Year’s Eve concert

‘Masking actual number of deaths’: Social media posts claim China fudging data on fatalities

There is a flood of social media posts on China’s Twitter-style Weibo platform talking about longer-than-normal queues at crematoriums and funeral homes, that are buckling under a growing number of bodies, ostensibly all Covid-19 deaths

Amid Covid-19 wave sweeping China, smartphone maker Xiaomi to slash nearly 10% of jobs

China’s social media platforms, including Weibo, Xiaohongshu and Maimai, have been overwhelmed with posts about job cuts this week. The state-run Chinese media first reported on Monday that the job cuts would affect nearly 15% of Xiaomi’s payroll, citing news agencies

Million-word novel gets censored even before publication, Chinese censorship draws ire

Chinese novelist, who writes under the alias Mitu, had been working with WPS, a domestic version of a cloud-based word processing software akin to Google Docs when she could not open the draft  because it apparently contains illegal information

Conspiracy theories on US spreading monkeypox are all over China's social media, here's why

While Chinese state media hasn’t thus far made such an accusation – it previously hit back at the ‘lab leak hypothesis’ by suggesting the COVID-19 virus originated in the US – that hasn’t stopped social media users

Chinese citizens target CCP govt on Weibo with subversive LGBTQI hashtag 'Call Me By Your Name' after COVID-19 fiasco

'Call Me By Your Name', winner of this year’s Oscar for best adapted screenplay, was the latest LGBTQI film to be censored in China

What a Tibetan singer’s self-immolation in Lhasa reveals about Chinese oppression

Tsewang Norbu is the 158th Tibetan to have set himself on fire in Tibet as a form of protest against Chinese oppression

Chinese netizens dodge censors to discuss Peng Shuai case online

The authorities have been quick to catch up, swiftly identifying and deleting new coded posts related to Peng -- even blocking the Douban page for the Korean drama "Prime Minister & I", where users had retreated to discuss Peng's claims against Zhang

Epic Games to pull Fortnite out of China after government crackdown on tech and gaming firms

In September, officials said they wanted to curb addiction in the gaming-mad nation and announced cuts to the amount of time children can spend playing online and ordering players to use ID cards when registering.