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China's 21-year-old rifle champion defended his Asian Games title with a 254.2 final that broke the Asian record he already held, hours after a world-record team gold in Nagoya — the centrepiece of a Chinese squad that took eleven golds on the first day of competition alone.
Sichuan University's aid rules disqualify students who smoke, drink heavily or game obsessively from tuition waivers — a clause that has existed since 2016 and went viral again this week. The argument it reopened is an old one: whether aid for the poor should also police how the poor spend their money.
A year into China's weight-loss-injection boom, clinical numbers and user testimonials are converging on an awkward answer: the shots work — about two-thirds of users shed 17 percent of their body weight — but more than half regain it after stopping. Now the drug's popularity has opened a third front: counterfeit and 'recycled' semaglutide circulating outside pharmacies.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A sweeping revision of China's Housing Provident Fund Regulations took effect on September 20, expanding what the compulsory savings scheme can pay for from six scenarios to nine — renovation, property fees and easier rent withdrawals among them. It is the fund's biggest overhaul in years, and it signals how Beijing wants household money to move.
The family of Wang Ran, a 24-year-old livestream host from Nanjing, says she was tricked into a Thailand trip by an online acquaintance, moved across the border into Myanmar and is now being held for a 600,000-yuan ransom — the latest case in the region's long-running scam-compound crisis.
At the Greater Bay Area film concert in Macao, one line — 'what real singing, what lip-syncing, this is the original singer' — became the night's verdict, and the latest round of China's long argument about who actually sings live.
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