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Undercover Report Finds a Tangshan Hospital Charging Insurance for Patients Who Weren't There

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The Paper sent a reporter into Tangshan Hongci Hospital as a patient and found wards registered full by day and largely empty by night — on the most extreme day in the evidence, 721 inpatients on the books hospital-wide, 500 absent after dark. The city has formed a joint investigation team, and its medical insurance centre has ordered hospitals to keep billed patients in their beds overnight.

Culture

Why a Third Grader's 'Packing Leftovers Is Shameful' Answer Was Marked Wrong

A Hangzhou third grader answered a Chinese-language question about leftover food by writing that his family is 'not short of a few yuan' and packing would be embarrassing to be seen. The teacher marked it wrong, deducting four points, and a parent-group screenshot has turned the question into a national argument about face, frugality and what exams are for.

Tech

Fifteen Held as Shanghai Police Trace a '510,000-Yuan' Restaurant Bill to an AI Forgery

A receipt apparently showing a 517,127.60-yuan dinner at Shanghai's storied Peace Hotel — two bottles of 1997 Romanée-Conti included — went viral before netizens picked it apart. Police now say an online liquor seller used AI software to doctor a real bill, then bought its forgery an audience: 15 people have been caught, four facing criminal measures.

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Life Stories

BOSS Zhipin Responds After a Job Seeker Is Rejected for Declining to Fetch the HR's Coffee

A job seeker in Kunshan who declined an interviewer's request to fetch two coffees was told she seemed 'petty' and lost the interview; the recruitment platform BOSS Zhipin has promised to look into it, and a broader argument about interview etiquette has broken out.

News & Politics

Refused Arrest, Released on Bail, Then a Killing: Taiyuan Case Puts Domestic-Violence Risk Review Under Scrutiny

A Taiyuan man who slashed his wife and her mother with a kitchen knife was freed on bail after prosecutors declined to approve his arrest — weeks later he strangled his wife and took his own life. Her family wants to know who assessed the risk, and how.

Sports

Riot Games Sends the 2027 League of Legends Calendar to China, Spain, Japan and Korea

Riot Games has announced where its 2027 League of Legends events will be held: the First Stand global tournament in China, MSI in Valencia, and Worlds split between Japan and South Korea — the first time the world championship has been staged in Japan.