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Viewers of the hit drama 'Early Spring Sunshine' are convinced its fictional ad agency is Ogilvy — and musician Liu Lian, a former Ogilvy creative director who says she earned 3,500 yuan a month in 2012, is happily playing along. The prototype hunt has turned a romance into an audit of creative-industry pay.
A meme about which 'sister-in-law' will first use the iPhone 18's new photo-provenance feature has become the week's sharpest tech joke in China: cryptographic proof that a photo is real, arriving in the exact culture where celebrity teams dismiss inconvenient photos as AI fakes.
Japan reported more than 13,000 syphilis cases in 2025, roughly thirteen times the 2013 figure, and the preferred treatment is now in shortage after a manufacturing failure at Pfizer. Chinese social media is watching the outbreak next door with a mix of alarm and fascination.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Hours after Apple's first event under new CEO John Ternus, the verdict is in on the 15,999-yuan iPhone Duo: a polished late entry into a foldable market Huawei, Xiaomi and Samsung have owned for years — plus an overnight price rise across the iPhone line and the quiet retirement of China's 'Hermès orange'.
China's women edged Puerto Rico 75-72 in Berlin to reach the World Cup quarter-finals as the last Asian team standing, behind Han Xu's 21 points and the arrival of 2.26-metre teenager Zhang Ziyu — with France up next.
Douyin rushed to remove user-made custom gifts of a sexually suggestive nature after a moderation failure let them flood its livestream gift store — a glitch that exposed how the platform's gift economy really works.
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