This Month In Bans: Under The Dome, Selfie Sticks, And Lavish Weddings

By Kevin Pinner April 2, 2015 11:49 pm   Comments: 0

This Month in Bans (belatedly): March.

This Month In Bans: Open-Air Meat-Smoking, Vulgar Street Names, Ivory

By Kevin Pinner February 28, 2015 4:25 pm   Comments: 3

Another edition of This Month in Bans: February.

This Month In Bans: Cleavage, Uber, And Burqas

By Kevin Pinner January 31, 2015 11:00 am   Comments: 7

One of the nicer perks of being a mover and shaker in a one-party system is that you can pretty much declare anything is illegal and people just have to deal with it. This is a new monthly column that looks back at all that was banned in China in the past month.

In China, As Ebola Trends, Tuberculosis Kills

By Kevin Pinner November 18, 2014 9:00 am   Comments: 1

While China's domestic media reels over the threat of ebola, praising the government's efforts in fighting a cold it hasn't caught, tuberculosis (TB) remains by far the country's deadliest disease, having claimed the lives of approximately 45,150 in 2012, according to the World Health Organization.