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A viral pun jokingly rebranded Meiyijia, one of China's biggest convenience-store chains, as 'Mei Yi's home' — invoking a child-trafficking suspect now on trial. The brand referred the matter to legal, lawyers called it potential commercial defamation, and Sichuan's propaganda department published a commentary asking who profits from the joke.
Two days after the table tennis star posted against covert filming, People's Daily published a commentary declaring that stalking photographers do not act out of love, mapped the grey economy that monetises athletes' private itineraries, and cited the state plan to clean up fan-circle chaos in sport.
SAIC's Roewe brand launched the Jiayue 07 extended-range SUV at 119,800 yuan with a lidar-equipped top trim at 144,800 yuan — and says 10,000 orders locked in within two minutes. Driver-assistance tech once reserved for 200,000-yuan cars is now a family-SUV baseline.
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The Politburo met Friday to review the report on the seventh round of central inspections of the current Central Committee, endorsing the round's results while ordering 'real' rectification and sustained anti-corruption pressure. The readout is a discipline document — and the standing early-warning system for which ministries are in trouble.
The Supreme People's Court has published the inner workings of China's most-watched abuse case, showing how lay judges established that an unmarried girlfriend counted as 'family' under the criminal law. It is a quiet but consequential signal about who the abuse statute protects.
Henry C. Lee — the forensic scientist who examined evidence in the O.J. Simpson trial and thousands of other cases — was buried in his ancestral Yangzhou on Thursday, with nearly 100 metres of flower baskets and no funeral money accepted. His widow's farewell, and the split of his ashes between two countries, turned the service into a story about homecoming.
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