Caixin is stayaing on top of the Alipay dispute, with this latest article giving a background to the situation.
Getting to the Bottom of the Alipay Dispute
Return of Ruble Rubble
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Doctors blame drug resistance caused by abuse of antibiotics as infection continues its path across the city, with 28 children falling ill yesterday
More than 4,000 workers at a Korean-owned handbag factory in Guangzhou's Panyu district spent a third day on strike yesterday, demanding better pay and more respect.
People working for Simone Limited at the Hualong plant in Meishan village halted production on Monday in protest over what they described as a "harsh working environment" and to call for better pay in light of the surging price of goods.
YANGON: In its first public comments on a week of fighting in northeast Myanmar, the government said Saturday that ethnic Kachin rebels fired first and the army had to act to protect a major Chinese-built hydroelectric power project.
The skirmishes were some of the fiercest in nearly two decades between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army. They erupted June 9, displacing at least 10,000 people over the course of about one week. The rebels have blamed the government for launching an offensive after militia fighters rejected a call to leave the strategic region.
The government says it did call on rebels to leave, but accused them of firing first after threatening Chinese technicians and detaining two army officers, according to a report Saturday in the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
A Monday editorial in the Global Times, a tabloid linked to the Communist Party, warned against trying to connect the recent incidents of unrest and draw conclusions about China's social stability. "China is not a nation where public anger collectively seeks to topple the existing order. It is time to debunk this ludicrous lie," it said.
Now a tiny English village is the latest community to claim to be being hit by the phenomenon known as "the hum".Sounds like a social mood related phenomena and according to the article, "The Hum" was strongest during the last big trough in social mood.
Residents of Woodland, in County Durham, claim that every night a noise permeates the air similar to the throb of a car engine.
It is sometimes so strong that it even shakes the bed of one of the householders.
But no matter how hard they look, the community cannot find the source of the problem and, at their wits end, have called in the council to investigate.
It's most famous occurrence was in Bristol in the 1970s when more than a thousand people complained of the consistent drone causing nosebleeds, sleeplessness and headaches.
It vanished as mysteriously as it arrived and was never explained.