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Floods across Thailand have killed at least eight and affected 1.8 million people since September 16, and videos of crocodiles and snakes in flooded streets are trending on Chinese social media — a disaster in a country millions of Chinese tourists know well.
A Weibo rumour from a top Beijing university has a student teaching a marketing elective himself when the lecturer failed to show — undetected until a WeChat photo gave him away. The argument it restarted is about the state of China's filler courses.
In the mixed 4x100m relay final at the Nagoya Asian Games, 17-year-old Chen Yujie ran down Thailand's anchor in the last strides to take gold by nine hundredths of a second — the event's first Asian Games title, and her third gold of these Games.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Tiffany's China retail chief has emailed an apology to the Chengdu customer whose mooncake complaint ended in a restricted account — while the store's follow-up rounds, a stage-name introduction and 20-yuan street pastries, kept the internet watching and briefly made a neighborhood pastry shop famous.
A man who filed fake 'refund-only' claims and punished refusing merchants with waves of malicious orders — 2,700 across 900 stores over three years — was sentenced to 18 months for sabotaging businesses, in a reference case published amid boiling merchant anger at the policy.
A half-meter egg tart became China's pastry of the season, drawing queues and millions of Zhihu reads — until customers noticed how little custard is inside. The chain says it will 'optimize' the product.
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