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The new requirement comes after several recent news reports on foreign teachers sexually abusing their students (see here and here).
The announcement reads:
Per the requirements of the Regulations on the Administration of Employment of Foreigners in China, the Regulations on Foreign Experts’ Applications for Employment Permits, etc., foreigners applying to work in China should submit a certificate of no cri…
The incident was captured on video (embedded below) by Shawn Kregan, who happened to be outside the bar eating some chuan'r when the attack took place.
Kregan, who filmed the video at considerable risk, happened to be outside Bar 88 enjoying some kebabs on the street. He noticed a group of Chinese men having some kind of debate amongst themselves, and "we were wondering what was going on," he says.
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Yet another foreign teacher has been detained by authorities on suspicion of sexually assaulting his students. The 32-year-old American identified only by his surname McMahon had been teaching kindergarten for the past five years at Shanghai's Lycée français de Shanghai.
The kindergarten teacher was seized by police on May 13 after seven families filed formal accusations against him, alleging sexual abuse and rape…
The Shanghaiist reports that after a night of heavy drinking an unidentified foreigner in Guangzhou chose the wrong prostitute to haggle with.
After haggling for a while with the 50 year old woman, the two cut a deald for 500 yuan and were seen leaving together in a taxi and checking into a nearby hotel.
Unfortunately for the foreigner, he made the rookie mistake of giving the woman a glimpse of his bulging walle…
The two sites were created by the expat behind the Sinolicious and KalanStar blogs, and aim to provide foreigners living in or moving to China's two largest expat hubs with a free and easy-to-use method of getting and getting rid of their stuff.
"As communities go, China's expat ones are highly fluid and transient. This being the case, members come and go often and either need to get a bunch of dongxi for thei…
Shanghai's multi-venue BooshKaBaash Festival, meant to run over this past and next weekend, has been cancelled after police raided venues and detained foreign performers.
Organizers posted the following on the BooshKaBaash site: "As many people may already know, the infamous Friday Police raid at Melting Pot led to the cancellation of all Booshkabaash Festival shows. We apologize for any inconvenience this may ha…
Despite a strong showing in the "Top 10 attractive cities to foreigners" list, a new report indicates that no Mainland first-tier cities are suitable for habitation.
The report on China's urban competitiveness, from Chinese think tank the National Academy of Economic Strategy under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, states that the metropolises of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou all failed to rank as "hab…
According to a post over at The Nanfang, Guangzhou is about to get a brand new event catering to the city's LGBT community, specifically the ladies.
Last month, 32-year-old English teacher Lisa and her friend Jamie were struck by the lack of venues at which lesbians can hang out. This particular discussion led to the conception of an event for lesbians which will be held at the Kiwi Lounge this coming Saturday, Ma…
The ad-hoc grassroots organization, China Foreign Teacher's Union, recently announced they had obtained a secretive ESL teachers blacklist used by various schools throughout China to keep tabs on teachers who become "problematic".
The list, sent to the group anonymously and entirely in Chinese, "contains the names of 796 teachers of which 673 are foreigners. 82% of the foreign teachers listed working in the Beijin…
The results of China's annual expat survey, conducted from September to December last year, are in. More than 175,000 expats participated in the survey via both online and offline voting.
The 10 cities were selected based on their performance in terms of policy and administration, as well as working and living environment for foreigners. Criteria required the cities be prefecture-level or above, and excluded Hong …
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