In a classic use of a “Pigouvian” tax, the Chinese government has slapped a 5 percent excise taxAn excise tax is a tax imposed on a specific good or activity. Excise taxes are commonly levied on ...

A meal in Guilin, China Shankar S. WASHINGTON — My first encounter with China was, oddly, at the top of the Empire State Building. I was a young student, and climbing to the top of the Manhattan ...

Taiwan’s Food and Drug Administration (TW-FDA) published a list of unqualified consumer products on April 16, which included 35,000 pairs of China-made chopsticks that were seized by Taiwan customs ...

Environmentalists in China have a message to Olympic-goers in Beijing: Bring your own chopsticks. Some environmentalists say that disposable wooden chopsticks are contributing to deforestation.

If you place Chinese, Japanese and Korean chopsticks side by side, can you spot which one belongs to which country? Read Time: 2 min Chopsticks may look almost identical at first, but take a closer ...

A 50-year-old man has gone viral on Chinese social media for picking up eggs using giant iron chopsticks without breaking them. A true master: Zhao Wenqi, who lives in Shandong province, eastern China ...