Well, the nail-houses have never gone anywhere, it’s more a matter of where the media has gone when they don’t cover them. I’m not saying
there ought to be round the clock coverage, just that the phenomenon is and always will be there. Here’s a picture of a store in Guangzhou:

"钉子户"小店坚守路中央 被称"最牛副食店"(图)_网易新闻中心 via kwout

Here’s another picture [...]

MBA相亲会数百人参加 女性怨男性“素质低”(图)_网易新闻中心 via kwout

Hmmm it seems that kwout is having problems with Chinese character encodings…oh well. The link is to an article about a marriage, dating meetup that paired some highly-educated lasses with some not so tall men. Some men complained that they were afraid of women who were too well-educated, saying that they were [...]

银行因挂失电话冗长误事 赔偿客户1万元(图)_网易新闻中心 via kwout

Never deposit a huge wad of money in the bank machine, at least not in Guangzhou, and definitely not in front of strange men that you don’t know. The scam is interesting: Mr. Shu puts the money in, and just as he’s about to finish, a guy next to him says “you [...]

A Guangzhou woman was sick and tired of having her new beamer always break down, especially at higher speeds. Not getting the answers she wanted to hear at the local dealerships where she had just bought her car (price tag: 700,000 rmb) she decided to take matters into her own hands by getting [...]

Skimming the Chinese media, I’ve seen a lot of cyber ink spilled on the issue of a
debate on “universal values” that erupted between the Southern (Nanfang) group
newspapers (don’t know off the top of my head which one of their publications
ran that essay first), and some of the Beijing-based newspapers. The debate
has gotten rather heated, and [...]

That’s what an article from Netease says. People are worried about where their donations go/went, so now there’s a whole army of accountants/auditors to make sure that the whole process is transparent and every fen is accounted for. Well, let’s hope that it works. The article says that this is the first time this kind [...]

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