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A woman on an August 19 Xiamen Airlines flight from Xining to Beijing says she was slapped, struck and kicked after objecting to her seatmate's repeated touching; the case has turned into a test of a new judicial interpretation on cabin violence.
Xinxiang's Hongqi district issued a formal apology after a volunteer blogger who removes construction ground nails from city streets was stopped by officials citing dust rules — and then adopted his cause as a district-wide hazard sweep.
Hujiafan town in Shaanxi lost a 10-million-yuan construction-contract lawsuit, defaulted on the settlement it signed, and had its basic-expenditure account re-frozen by an intermediate court — leaving staff without August salaries and suspending medical-insurance deductions.
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Rescuers digging through the mudslide-buried Gyirong border crossing have confirmed one much-loved young officer safe, while another, who joined the immigration police after volunteering in a previous earthquake, remains missing in the rubble.
A new Shanghai bakery has replaced the bread on its shelves with photo cards — customers pick a card, pay, and staff fetch the loaf from the back — a small design fix that has lit up Chinese social media's endless argument over hygiene, packaging and whether retail novelty is out of hand.
A gift box of mooncakes shaped like China's provinces, each with a matching regional filling — Sichuan pepper beef for Sichuan, cranberry for the northeast — has captured what 'involution' looks like in the country's most saturated gift market, as buyers complain the holiday's most famous pastry has become all packaging and no appetite.
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