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A Nanning court has awarded 13,000 yuan to the family of a critically ill man who died after a rideshare driver put him out by the roadside during a hospital transfer, against a 960,000-yuan claim. The verdict — the family refused hospital admission three times and chose a rideshare over an ambulance — has become a national argument about gig-economy gaps in China's medical system.
China's state broadcaster has published an unusually detailed attack on *Vivant*, TBS's top-rated thriller, accusing it of dressing Japanese wartime atrocities as modern Chinese crimes while burnishing the image of Japan's Self-Defence Forces. The feud has made the drama a test of how history is told in fiction.
A Jiangsu woman who bought a 60-square-metre flat in Hegang for 38,000 yuan — the price of a used car — found the roof leaking in multiple places after moving in, and is suing after her agent's viewing video skipped every damaged spot. The case has become China's most-searched cautionary tale about buying a home remotely in the low-price cities that young people dream of retiring to.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A passenger who could not avoid secondhand smoke on Ningbo station's high-speed platforms took the railway to court over ashtrays placed under bilingual no-smoking signs. The station's answer — taking down the signs — has turned a local complaint into a national argument about whether smoking is actually banned on China's platforms.
After a 0-for-4 start at the League of Legends world championship, China's teams finally won — TES over AL, then iG over TSW of the Pacific league — and the relief on Weibo says as much about the LPL's anxieties as the wins do.
A viral joke about the romance-novel 'domineering CEO' — always from Beijing, never from Guangdong — has turned into a nationwide roast of how different regions perform wealth, and the punchline says more about China than the trope does.
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