When visiting China, you may wonder why some toilets look different from Western-style facilities, and there's an interesting ...

The Yungang Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Shanxi province, northern China, recently installed timers in the women’s restrooms. This historic site, renowned for its 45 major caves and ...

Public restrooms in China have rolled out high-tech “health checking” urinals that can analyze urine for a variety of health markers — and costs those looking for a screening less than $3.

Access to clean, flush toilets remain an issue in parts of modern China. Early in his tenure, Chinese leader Xi Jinping promised to “revolutionize” the country’s restrooms, as part of ...

Boasting 51,000 statues carved into 252 caves and niches some 1,500 years ago, China’s Yungang Buddhist Grottoes is irrefutably a spectacular attraction. But in recent days, the restrooms in ...

With sanitation, however, politics can get in the way. A revolution is much needed. Toilets in China are often rudimentary, especially in the countryside where until recent years it was common to ...

"A tourist site isn't an office – who would spend their time in the toilets? Is it really necessary?" said a user wrote on Weibo, China's largest social media platform. "I found it a little bit ...

The tourist site in Datong city of Shanxi Province is known for its 252 caves and 51,000 Buddha statues. The administration is under heavy fire after a video showed timers installed outside the ...

A major tourist attraction in China has come under fire for installing timers on the doors of its women’s toilets in an effort to cut restroom queueing times. The Yungang Grottoes cave complex ...