Blog Tag - Global Times
![Global Times Takes Aim at Baozza and De Refter for "Ridiculing" Chinese Culture With Fusion Food](https://www.thebeijinger.com./sites/default/files/styles/blog_list_image/public/thebeijinger/blog-images/345221/baozi-global-times-1.jpg "Global Times Takes Aim at Baozza and De Refter for "Ridiculing" Chinese Culture With Fusion Food")
The topic may be steamed buns, but the result is straight-up beef, the sort normally reserved for hip-hop feuds or rivaling political parties.
This...
An article in Sunday’s Global Times suggested that divorce rates were increasing in cross-national marriages in China due to “cultural differences,...
![On Giant Robots, Cluster-Boobs, Bare Bellies and Other Works of Public "Art"](https://www.thebeijinger.com./sites/default/files/styles/blog_list_image/public/thebeijinger/blog-images/462/statueboob.jpg "On Giant Robots, Cluster-Boobs, Bare Bellies and Other Works of Public "Art"")
Fantastically bad public art used to be de rigueur here in Beijing - longer term residents may recall the infamous Sanlitun Beer Mug statue (which...
The National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) have finally wrapped up. In their wake they've...
If your apartment is feeling a little colder than normal, you’re not imagining things. Today, the city turns off the heating (exact time unknown),...
The Global Times reports that commuting times for Beijingers averaged 43.6 minutes from 2005-2010 – 5.6 minutes more than the average time clocked...
Beijing has been reeling from a slew of bad cab drivers and guilty felons. For most Westerners Christmas decorations in early November are seen as...
Here’s a look at some news and opinions for the past week from the drain of sexpats on Beijing to China’s environmental efforts.
Are foreigners...
Take a break from the return of the work week with a look at what’s been going on in Beijing. What better way to procrastinate than with odd and...
Beijing’s rush to build and rapidly expand its subway system now appears to be revealing a detrimental (not to mention dangerous) cost, right at the...
Today is Children’s Day but it’s not all fun and games as many would hope. In China games are plentiful, as long as you don’t mind the toxins....
It's awards season in Beijing, and following on the heels of the Beijinger’s 2011 Reader Bar & Club Awards comes the Global Times with their own...
Food scandals are so common in China that they no longer offer shock or surprise to anyone that’s been here for any length of time. To wake everyone...
The government is at it again. Weeks ago the news was about the ban of time-travel in TV shows and movies. Now it’s police, spy, and romance shows...
Beijing’s smoking ban supposedly went into effect over the weekend – except there’s no actual information on the ban. We checked with Beijing’s bars...
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