Please turn JavaScript on
header-image

South China Morning Post - Society

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  25.78 / week
Tags: 

Message History

A Chinese “lovesick patriotic” investor has posted a marriage advertisement online saying he is looking for a life partner who shares his passion. The 30-something man placed the advert on his social media account “yiwanxin”, which means “hundreds of million xin”, on November 27, in a bid to find a wife. He said he was born in the 1990s, is a professional investor and one of the...

Read full story

A man who cycled 18,000km from his hometown in France to China to realise a Silk Road adventure dream has trended on social media in China. Frenchman Killian Le Guyader, 24, began his journey in the northwestern city of Rennes at the beginning of this year. He arrived in China not long ago and a video showing him standing on the Great Wall in Beijing went viral on mainland socia...

Read full story

A wife in Japan whose husband has had a shocking 520 affairs has turned her difficult life raising a son with an extremely rare illness alone into a comic. Her move has inspired many single mothers to find strength and courage. According to the Japanese magazine Shukan Bunshun, housewife Nemu Kusano married her husband after being introduced to him by a friend. Believing the hu...

Read full story

An engineer in eastern China has been fired for taking frequent bathroom breaks that lasted longer than an hour despite his claims that he was suffering from haemorrhoids. The man, surnamed Li from Jiangsu province, was let go for taking 14 bathroom breaks, the longest of which lasted four hours, in a month between April and May 2024. The case was reported by the Shanghai Federa...

Read full story

In China’s Gelao ethnic group, an old custom required brides to have one or two upper teeth removed before marriage, supposedly to avoid bringing harm to the groom’s family. In some cases, the missing teeth were even replaced by those of a dog for decorative purposes. The Gelao people are an ethnic group in China and Vietnam. Their estimated population in China in 2021 was more ...

Read full story