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AP Photo/Nasser Nasser Former Sudanese 'Lost Boy' is Now a U.S. Diplomat
Gai Nyok is among the success stories from a U.S. amnesty program for refugee children orphaned by the second Sudanese civil war.
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Chinese Counterfeiters Are Selling the iPhone 6 Before It Has Even Been Released
In China, where knockoffs or shanzai products are big business, manufacturers have been known to make fully functioning copies of new products even before they’re released.
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China Is Launching the Most Impressive Water Pipeline Project Ever
Former Chinese premier Wen Jiabao wasn’t being dramatic in 1999 when he called the country’s water problems a threat to the “survival of the Chinese nation.”
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China Plans to Unleash Smog-Killing Drones to Zap Its Pollution
What better way to launch a war on pollution then with a fleet of smog-clearing drones?
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Shanghai's Air Pollution Today Was Literally Off the Charts
Yesterday and today, Shanghai experienced some of the highest levels of air pollution ever recorded in China. The US Consulate in Shanghai reported levels were “beyond index”—i.e., off the charts.
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Suicide Rates Are Falling in Almost Every Developed Country but South Korea
Over the past two decades South Korea’s suicide rate, while experiencing occasional dips, has trended upwards. Meanwhile, most developed countries are seeing their rates fall.
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Want More Children in School? First Make the Daily Journey to School Less Insane
For the past 10 months, children in Indonesia’s Banten province have been commuting to school on narrow bamboo rafts—along a river best known to tourists for its whitewater rapids—because local authorities still haven’t fixed a bridge that collapsed in January in a flood.
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Chinese Entrepreneurs Are Getting Creative to Solve Their Smog Problem
The latest market opportunity for entrepreneurs in China? Polluted air.
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China's Labor Camps Could Just Continue Under Another Name
Among a raft of reforms China announced today was the abolition of its “education-through-labor” camps, known as laojiao. But according to Human Rights Watch, the government has considered replacing it with another system, which also allows long-term detention without trial.
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Samsung and Starbucks Are 'Bullying' Chinese Customers, Says China's State TV
Chinese state media just took aim at another foreign company: Samsung, which happens to make the most popular smartphones in the country.
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China Just Bought Five Percent of Ukraine
China has inked a deal to farm three million hectares (about 11, 583 square miles) of Ukrainian land over the span of half a century—which means the eastern European country will give up about 5% of its total land, or 9% of its arable farmland to feed China’s burgeoning population.
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Ending China's One-Child Policy Could Boost Its Economy
China’s decades-long one-child policy is credited with helping China’s economy grow, but many Chinese resent it bitterly, and there already several exceptions to the rule. Now the authorities are studying the possibility of relaxing it for most Chinese.
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Bootleg Cronuts Are Spreading Across the Globe
In case you needed more proof of the quickening pace of globalization, look no further than the “cronut.” Within two months, the hybrid pastry created in New York City as a cross between a croissant and a donut has spread around the world.
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Why Bribery is Rampant in China’s Healthcare System
The imbroglio between Chinese officials and GlaxoSmithKline is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to endemic corruption in China’s healthcare industry.
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How Could North Korea’s Economy Be Growing Faster Than Brazil’s?
For an internationally condemned and reclusive communist state, North Korea's economy isn’t doing all that badly. The economy grew 1.3% last year, according to South Korea’s central bank.
