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THE REAL COST OF EXPAT LIFE: What we miss and why it matters

My mom just turned 60, and I wasn’t in England to celebrate with her. Just like I wasn’t there to comfort a friend through cancer or see my cousin get married....

Emma Leaning | July 27, 2024, Saturday

Restaurants get off to a quick start thanks to game-changing policies

This week a friend invited me to lunch at a noodle restaurant on Beijing Road W....

Wan Lixin | July 25, 2024, Thursday

China through your eyes: lessons on life and perspectives from the community

I’ve spent this week judging a video contest for which you made short films about life in Shanghai and your take on Chinese culture. The campaign is called “Shanghai, My City,” and over the course of several...

Emma Leaning | July 13, 2024, Saturday

What’s that putrid smell in classrooms? A risky lark called ‘stinky water’

Spittle, cockroaches, stinky tofu juice, starch, leg hair. Students are mixing repulsive cocktails of ingredients, left to ferment in bottles until they explode and spray noxious liquid onto classroom...

Yang Jian | July 4, 2024, Thursday

City beckons foreign investors with ever-improving business environment

The steady improvement of Shanghai’s business environment, particularly in terms of creating legal infrastructure to protect investor interests, is making the city even more attractive to foreign inve...

Wan Lixin | July 1, 2024, Monday

Grow down: a remedy for adult life

There’s nothing mean you can say to me that I haven’t said to myself. Lazy, yes. Incompetent, probably. Ugly, sure. Recently I’ve had such distain for myself that I’ve wanted to strip the skin from my ...

Emma Leaning | June 29, 2024, Saturday

AI-generated crimes:  What can we do  to stop them?

As speculated when ChatGPT 3.5 was released early last year, crimes by means of artificial intelligence have mushroomed around the world....

Lu Feiran | June 27, 2024, Thursday

Two ill-mannered cases within a day: What’s wrong with Manner Coffee?

Last week, two violent cases of baristas assaulting customers within a day pushed Manner Coffee to the forefront of public opinion....

Lu Feiran | June 25, 2024, Tuesday

Tianxia: a grand hope rooted in China’s cultural genes

Tianxia (天下), or a grand hope, is deep in China’s cultural genes....

Zhang Yixuan | June 25, 2024, Tuesday

Children can’t make ‘cents’ of real money. Is it worrisome?

MELANIE Zhang didn’t realize that she had never taught her 8-year-old daughter about renminbi until recently, when the Grade-2 student was struggling with homework that required her to solve a maths problem ...

Lu Feiran | June 24, 2024, Monday

The way of water

Wang Yong Opinion editor

Festival freeze frame: Idyllic Shanghai village comes into focus

One man's meat

Wan Lixin Opinion deputy editor

Restaurants get off to a quick start thanks to game-changing policies

Woodpecker at work

Ni Tao Opinion writer

Business gathering pace as pandemic weakens

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