The Nanfang

The rise of interactive online communities in China has hit yet another snag as naughty photographs appearing on Alibaba’s Alipay e-commerce system has led to accusations that it facilitates �...

https://thenanfang.com/alipay-social-media-function-criticized-online-brothel/

A sculpture of a black swan was quickly removed after its unveiling at the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), following speculation that it would bring “bad luck”. Workers at th...

https://thenanfang.com/black-swan-sculpture-freaks-beijing-investors/

A book not about English teachers, or people struggling to find their way in this world, is definitively more than welcome in the very tight panorama of foreign writers in China. It certainly can...

https://thenanfang.com/party-members-wickedly-funny-disturbing-look-power-china/

Well, here we are. Just a few weeks shy of seven years after we launched The Nanfang as a rudimentary community website for southern China, we are closing up the doors and locking the gates. This...

https://thenanfang.com/nanfang-throws-towel-just-shy-7th-birthday/

After being detained for a month, three Australian employees of a Macao casino have been formally charged. The three Crown Resorts Ltd employees were charged with “suspicion of gambling” las...

https://thenanfang.com/china-arrests-macao-casino-employees-gambling/

China’s Foreign Ministry has expressed concern over the arrest of 1,240 Chinese nationals in a gambling crackdown in the Philippines. In what is thought to be the largest bust of its kind, the...

https://thenanfang.com/hundreds-chinese-arrested-philippines-gambling-crackdown/

This is awkward: An exact replica of Wendy Taylor’s famous London landmark, the 1973 sculpture Timepiece, has suddenly appeared in a Shanghai residential neighborhood. According to The Indepen...

https://thenanfang.com/copycat-london-landmark-appears-shanghai/

A 24 year-old Shenzhen woman has given birth despite claiming she has never had sex. Lin Shuping said she first realized she was pregnant when she was about to give birth. Lin gave birth to a he...

https://thenanfang.com/shenzhen-mother-gives-birth-baby-claims-never-sex/

Taiwan has long maintained military relations with Singapore (if you’ve been on vacation in Kenting you’ve been within a stone’s throw of where Singapore troops stay in Taiwan). This week C...

https://thenanfang.com/china-seizes-singapore-military-equipment-way-home-taiwan/

The idea had already been germinating on college campuses for some time, but it was only just a little less than a year ago that anyone was daring enough to come out openly for Hong Kong independ...

https://thenanfang.com/idea-hong-kong-independence-one-year/