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FAW-Volkswagen opened pre-sales on August 28 for the ID. AURA T6, a 4.81-metre electric SUV priced from 135,900 yuan — the size of a BMW X3 at a fifth of the cost — built on a China-led tech stack and aimed straight into the market's bruising price war.
Zhou Binglun, a street vendor who went viral for resembling Jay Chou while making 10-yuan pancakes, is shutting his Tianjin shop after his landlord raised the annual rent from 130,000 to 200,000 yuan — the third store his fame has failed to hold down, and a national argument about who profits from a small shop's popularity.
Xiaomin ran a wedding-planning business in Hunan; her husband, relatives say, had no steady job and asked her for money again and again. She raised divorce, and a month later she was dead. The case has put China's 2021 divorce cooling-off period back on trial — and the argument over whether separation is the moment of greatest danger.
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China's central bank and banking regulator extended personal mortgage terms to 40 years, capped monthly payments at half of a borrower's income and told banks to renegotiate with struggling homeowners on August 28. The same day, three ministries moved to make selling finished homes — not off-plan apartments — the national norm, a direct answer to the country's unfinished-building crisis.
A Chongqing advertising professional who produced a full project plan for a job interview and was rejected anyway received an unprompted 1,000-yuan "tea money" transfer from the company. The gesture trended at No. 3 because the norm it broke — candidates asked to work for free, then ghosted — is one many Chinese job-seekers know.
Teachers whose pupils scored lowest in a Sichuan county's exams were lined up on stage beneath a giant screen reading 'shame' — a photo officials confirm is real, an investigation is now examining, and CCTV says amounts to public humiliation that violates national policy.
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