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A Weibo user's advice to photograph yourself without beauty filters — because they deepen appearance anxiety — met a pointed rebuttal arguing that joy needs no reality check, and the exchange captures China's unfinished argument over the retouched face.
Official tests found no plague and no lab accident behind the death of a 28-year-old employee at an Irkutsk anti-plague institute — a verdict that unwinds the rumor that ran through Chinese feeds all week, though the WHO still wants answers.
With A-shares closed for Golden Week, Iran's intensified attacks on Hormuz shipping sent oil toward $102 and equities tumbling worldwide — leaving Chinese investors a single session to price it all in on Thursday.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A father paid about 65,000 yuan for 26 tables at 2,599 yuan apiece, and the hotel served an outdated menu: grouper swapped for bass, roast goose for duck, the lobster downgraded, at every table. The hotel has offered 20,000 yuan; the father wants half the bill back and is going to court.
"Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant," starring Shen Teng as a Chinese cook in Iraq, will represent mainland China in the Best International Film race at the 99th Academy Awards. The submission caps a summer of fan recreations of the film's signature rice dish.
A 28-year-old assistant at an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk died days after breaking a vial of live bacteria, and about 200 contacts were quarantined. Russian tests found no plague, but the account — a lab accident, a misdiagnosed pneumonia — moved fast on Chinese social media.
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