Tea Leaf Nation

Mark Zuckerberg, eat your heart out.  12306.cn may not sound like the most alluring, or easy to remember, website, but starting on January fifth of this year its average daily page views have exceeded 1 billion, making it one of the world’s most trafficked sites.  No, it’s not the next Facebook or Google.  It’s the [...]

It’s 2012 in China. Many netizens treated New Years’ Eve as a time for reflection, often bittersweet. Most commenters on Weibo, China’s Twitter, welcomed the new year wistfully; one described “a single lonely lantern flying into space…the world has changed around us.” Others took the opportunity to reach out to someone special: “Time can pull [...]

High speed train accident kills more than 30 – it could happen to travelers Real estate prices take bumpy ride – it could happen to owners Wukan villagers protest over land grab – it could happen to peasants Stock market crash wipes out small investors – it could happen to investors School bus accidents pop [...]