3 hours ago
Thai milk tea is China's drink of the season — in puddings, cakes and cups — until drinkers did the caffeine maths: a medium cup can carry as much kick as an Americano, and the meme announcing it doubles as the health advisory.
Three hundred performers carried a 67-metre dragon of straw and burning incense through Tai Hang's lanes on the first of three Mid-Autumn nights — a 150-year-old ritual still drawing crowds under an overcast moon.
A Zhejiang railway operator has rolled out women-only sleeper compartments on all five of its green-skin routes — six berths, a privacy curtain and an amenity box, bookable after boarding at no extra cost. The design is opt-in by accident, and it is starting an old argument again.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
China's badminton men led the Asian Games team final 2-0 in Nagoya before Indonesia took three straight matches to win the title for the first time since 1998, hours after China's women reclaimed their own crown.
On the same night in Nagoya, Japan's men beat China 3-2 for their first Asian Games table tennis team gold in 60 years, while China's women swept the same opponent 3-0 for a sixth straight title.
The actress's point-by-point rebuttal of a breach-of-contract statement — non-exclusive representation, unpaid income, a suit filed in February — puts the contract practices of China's short-drama boom on show.
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026