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A bride-to-be's post about arguing with her parents over whether her fiancé's 'three golds' should be cash instead of jewelry drew 11,000 likes in a day, because it lands on an old question with new stakes: at today's gold prices, what is the tradition for — protecting the bride, or pricing her?
A Henan court sentenced a man to two years in prison, suspended, for repeatedly stabbing his wife's lover and seriously injuring him — ruling that the victim's 'major fault' in the adultery weighed in the attacker's favour, and the verdict has reignited China's argument over how far infidelity can mitigate violence.
CHAGEE's one-day buy-one-get-one giveaway to celebrate Zheng Qinwen's China Open title crashed its app and buried its stores in orders — and franchisees say they are carrying most of the cost, about 5 yuan on every free cup, against a brand subsidy of around 3 yuan.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Days after Zheng Qinwen became the first home-grown singles champion in China Open history, Chinese social media has been doing the arithmetic on her career: a support team that costs more than 50,000 yuan a day on the road, and an income that is 97 percent endorsement money. The figures reveal how expensive professional tennis is for Chinese players — and how little of it prize money pays for.
Lu Yong, the leukemia patient whose battle with the price of cancer drugs inspired the 2018 film 'Dying to Survive', has taken more than 35,000 pills over 24 years. Doctors have now cleared him to try stopping altogether — the endpoint of a story that helped push China to negotiate cancer-drug prices down.
As the CCTV-8 drama 'Lan Xiang Ru Gu' aired its finale, Tan Songyun published a letter in her character's voice to the character's dying mother — and a viral side-plot involving a five-year-old lookalike showed how completely the show has escaped its time slot.
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