Toilets are common in Chinese households now, but public restrooms are still dominated by squat pans, which many Chinese find more hygienic due to the lack of thigh-and-toilet-seat contact.

A slightly awkward moment unfolded during the final of the Women’s Synchronized 3m Springboard at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on Wednesday (July 31). A seemingly uncomfortable atmosphere was ...

Suddenly, my friend turned to me with a worried expression on her face and asked if the bathrooms had “Western” lavatories or “Chinese” ones, the latter referring to the squat toilets found in most of ...

The position looks a lot like what the western world calls the “Asian Squat”, which many long-legged Caucasians cannot seem to achieve.

An independent online straw poll in January showed that 88 percent of 215,120 respondents prefer to use a squat toilet, the Singapore-based Straits Times reports. In fact, most Chinese consider it ...