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[Click here to "Like" Tea Leaf Nation.] Making a difference in China is now easier than ever. Starting today, for every Facebook “Like” Tea Leaf Nation receives on its Facebook page, we will donate 25 cents to the Rural China Education Foundation (RCEF). One “Like” is enough to feed a rural child their breakfast. Thirty “Likes” [...]

This is a popular tweet from Mr. Ren Zhiqiang, a real estate tycoon. See Tea Leaf Nation’s previous coverage of Mr. Ren here. As of end of Jan. 10, there were almost 40,000 retweets and 7,000 comments.     NDRC: Excluding taxes, China’s oil prices are lower than America’s. [Ed: NDRC is the most powerful [...]

China’s Red Cross is in trouble. It began in June of last year, when a 20-year-old girl named Guo Meimei, claiming to be an employee of an arm of the Chinese Red Cross, posted pictures of herself on Weibo, China’s Twitter. The images showed Guo driving a Maserati, posing against a wall of Hermes bags, [...]