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Air Purifying Plants Help Combat Air Pollution in China

With air pollution in China at the top of the list of concerns for [China] expats, having air purifying plants in your home can help. more »China Healthpollutionclean airplantshealthwellnessair pollution

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Ninth young child catches potentially lethal Streptococcus serotype 3 bug

Another child was yesterday confirmed to have been infected by a lethal bug which killed a five-year-old girl and a three-year-old boy within a week last month. The three-year-old girl was in serious...

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Sit the Month

When Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cambridge, or Kate Middleton as the more common oiks know her, gave birth to the royal baby, she stepped out to greet the world’s media the next day. Many...

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Panasonic to pay expat workers in China pollution compensation

The Japanese electronics giant Panasonic has said it will give employees sent to China a wage premium to account for the country's hazardous air pollution, a possible first for an international...

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Recipe from Yunnan: aphrodisiac cauliflower flan

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) often tastes horrible, especially when a prescription is simply a number of ground ingredients boiled in water. The good people at website Soundinner have embarked on...

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Chinese man seeks divorce, saying smog has driven family apart

A Beijing man is seeking to divorce his wife after she took their son to a tropical island province to escape the capital's notorious smog, saying the long-distance relationship had destroyed their...

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Eating Healthy in China - Ten dishes you need to know

Between stir-fry, quick-fry, deep-fry, sweet and sour, sweet and spicy and pork being the default choice of meat, maintaining a healthy diet in China can turn out to be quite a challenge. In case you...

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China'€™s Toxic Pollution Levels Fuel Luxury Air Filter Demand

China’s prodigious growth has afforded its people many luxuries, such as a rising affluent middle-class, but it has also robbed them of one thing: clean air. Amidst a blazing air purifier market, two...

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Measuring PM2.5 for 200rmb: the SamoAir Review

Can a digital particle measuring device available for less than 200rmb really be worth your time? For the price, this thing is pretty amazing. more »China...

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Healing Hands: Chinese Medicinal Massage

A quick look into the theories and philosophies of Traditional Chinese Massage more »China Healthmassagetcmhandshealthwellness

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"Like Running on Mars:" Runners share their Beijing Marathon Stories

The Beijing Marathon went ahead despite hazardous levels of pollution; we talk to the runners to find out just how bad it was and collect the best photos from the event. more »China...

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African Ebola suspect released from quarantine in Chengdu after 17 days

After traveling for days via train and plane to Chengdu via Beijing from his hometown Gusau, Nigeria, Sani Mohammed Adullahi, 29, arrived at the Southwest Jiaotong University campus — to be taken...

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Why People Decided to Run the Beijing Marathon Despite Heavy Pollution

Aware of the risks, having been warned, and reminded of safety precautions that were taken by others, they still ran. This is why. more »China Healthbeijingmarathonair pollutionsmogPM...

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In China, creating a pollution data app is a risky business

A new mobile app popped up in 2011 that wanted to make it easier for Chinese people to gauge just how bad the pollution is in their city. It also allowed for easy sharing of pollution index data...

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Staying healthy: China vs The West

It’s a well-known fact that Chinese diets are perceived as healthier by those in the West. As conventional wisdom goes, the smaller, freshly cooked portions mean that people are generally exposed to a...

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