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One People's Hospital in Anyang, Henan recently enjoyed 15 minutes of fame on national TV due to its new "birth control" policy. This policy is not the famous One Child Policy, introduced in 1979 by the Chinese government to curb the nascent population explosion. Rather than restricting the number of children a couple may have, the local hospital sought to define the ideal baby weight at birth.

China on Friday said it will impose a new tax on foreigners working in the country and require them to participate in the country's social insurance programs.

The move will raise the cost of hiring foreigners in China and "may result in a decrease in the number of foreign workers in the long term," according to the Shanghai Daily, the city-government published daily newspaper.

Tibet reopened to tourists Wednesday, three months after the Chinese government banned visits by foreigners after violent anti-government riots and protests. Officials from the Tibetan Tourism Bureau say the first group of foreign tourists, from Sweden, arrived at the Lhasa airport on Wednesday morning. China threw a curtain around Tibet and areas in nearby provinces with sizable Tibetan populations after the March violence, citing the safety of foreign tourists and journalists.

In China, white people get an inexplicably large amount of respect simply by being white (I didn't use "foreigners" here because people with darker skin are typically excluded from these "perks" regardless of their country of origin).

With the establishment of the new “Yellow River Tour” alliance, mayors and tourism administrators from Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan province hope to cooperatively build a new tourism “brand” to pool resources, increase regional communication and boost domestic and foreign tourism.

GUANGZHOU: A spike in an increasingly popular fraud scheme has struck this major port city, and authorities are pointing the finger at foreigners for the scams.

Eight foreigners have gone on trial for the so-called black-money scam in Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court in the first six months of the year.

There is always concern that Shenzhen, the first city to implement China’s open door policy, is not a safe city - crimes are rampant, including those against Hong Kong people and foreigners. The following facts explain why.

Chinese archaeologists claimed today to have found the tomb of one of the country's oldest and most notorious pantomime villains.

The bones of Cao Cao, who is a byword for treachery in Peking opera, may been located near the ancient capital of Anyang, in Henan province, the state-run broadcaster announced.

A major Chinese city wants to introduce the country's first "Good Samaritan" rules to encourage residents to help each other, after the death of a two-year-old girl whose plight was ignored by passers-by horrified the nation.