Since news began to surface of President Xi Jinping’s visit to the Qingfeng steamed bun house in Beijing last month, the eatery has not only gained notoriety around the country but has now become a meeting ground for petitioners. Groups of protestors were photographed outside of the shop recently with signs and banners accusing the government of obscurantism in hopes to attract attention from relevant departments.

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These criminal busts just keep getting weirder and weirder. Seven people were arrested in Guangdong province during a raid on an illegal warehouse where workers were injecting dirty pond water into meat.

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Around 10 pigs that had the ability to glow in the dark were born this year as a result of an experiment at the South China Agriculture University, Guangdong Province.

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Lots of chatter on the Interwebs about the possibility of a cross-border capital transaction tax in China (aka Tobin Tax – you remember this from first-year Macroecon) after some verbal musings on the topic from Yi Gang, head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange and vice-gov of the PBOC. The Telegraph, bemoaning the effect of a Tobin Tax on London’s plan to be a RMB trading center,

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A stampede killed 14 people and injured 10 more at a mosque in Guyuan city, Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region on January 5.

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American sort-of-actress Lindsay Lohan arrived in Shanghai to attend the Sohu Fashion Festival and it looks like she’s been quite busy.

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The author is Michael Werner, senior research analyst covering the Chinese and Hong Kong banks at Sanford Bernstein & Co. In December, the Chinese banks underperformed the the MSCI Asia Pacific Excluding Japan Index (MXAPJ) by 300 basis points (bp) as eight of the nine Hong Kong-listed Chinese banks underperformed the market on the back

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Weibo account to interact with China’s netizens after his visit to the country in December, several of them took to the platform with one grand request: a speedy release of Sherlock’s third season.

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Over 700 swimming enthusiasts took a dip in -27 degree Celsius (-16.6ºF) water to compete in an annual ice swimming competition prior to the opening of Harbin’s Ice and Snow Festival, which kicked off yesterday.

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The city saw only eight days last month that were considered good or perfect by standards of the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center (whatever those standards mean).

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