A Taiwan merchant revealed that his father had been investing in Mainland China until a subordinate embezzled his assets. He reported it to Mainland China but was framed and taken into custody by police officers for as long as seven months.
From humble beginnings of making white or black tapioca pearls (hereinafter referred to as just pearls) out of cassava flour, now, there are pearls in all sorts of colors or popping boba (also called magic beans or fruit balls), plus matching ingredients like pudding, grass jelly, fruit, etc. with seasoning, syrup, and tea leaves to create endless combinations. It can be said that this is the principal reason for the bubble tea industry's gradual development from Taiwan to Hong Kong, Mainland China, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea, North America, Europe, and even Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
According to news reports, Tongyu compiled the Report on the Status of the Rights of Transgender and Intersex People in Mainland China from March to June 2016. The report analyzes violence, familial and social discrimination, educational discrimination, occuptional discrimination, problems of sociocultural acceptance, health rights, problems of legal recognition, etc. of transgender and intersex people.
Approximately from the 1970s, the character of Chiang Kai-shek in Mainland Chinese movies and television dramas often hurled "niang xi pi" (fuck your mother) when swearing others. Such perception created by dramatic art is well-known in the Mainland.