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A 25-Year-Old Illustrator Died Four Days After a Commission Scam Took 40,000 Yuan

A 25-Year-Old Illustrator Died Four Days After a Commission Scam Took 40,000 Yuan

The 25-year-old illustrator known as "No Grapefruit" fell to her death in Foshan four days after scammers drained 40,000 yuan from her through a fake-customer-service scheme; police ruled out a criminal case, and commission artists across China are sharing her story as a warning.

China Eastern Backs the Attendant Who Knelt, Saying the Passenger Threatened to Kick Her

China Eastern Backs the Attendant Who Knelt, Saying the Passenger Threatened to Kick Her

Two days after a flight attendant's kneeling apology became China's most-watched video, the airline's first official statement says the passenger threatened to kick her and demanded a hospital escort — and pledges to defend front-line staff's "professional dignity."

A 10,000-Yuan-a-Month Nanny's Put-Downs Left a New Mother Physically Ill

A Hangzhou mother says the infant-care nurse she paid nearly 10,000 yuan a month mocked her body and her feeding choices until she was diagnosed with somatic pain. The case has struck a nerve over the trust Chinese families must place in a fast-growing, lightly vetted industry.

A cabin attendant knelt repeatedly to a passenger whose elbow was brushed by a drinks cart on a China Eastern flight from Hefei to Dalian. The video has turned one man's complaint into a national argument about what China's service workers owe its customers.

Why a Flight Attendant Knelt to Apologize on a China Eastern Flight

30 Sep 2026

Gold's Slide Turns China's Twenty-Somethings Into the Metal's Main Buyers

29 Sep 2026

Tiffany's China retail chief has emailed an apology to the Chengdu customer whose mooncake complaint ended in a restricted account — while the store's follow-up rounds, a stage-name introduction and 20-yuan street pastries, kept the internet watching and briefly made a neighborhood pastry shop famous.

Tiffany's Mooncake Apology Tour: A Stage Name, Street Pastries, and an Innocent Pastry Shop

29 Sep 2026

Left Behind in a Cut-Off Rented Room: Guangdong Parents Send Their 13-Year-Old Money Instead of Care

28 Sep 2026

Zhuang Xinru, a 37-year-old former partner at the crypto venture firm Hack VC, died by suicide in the California desert in August, a coroner has ruled. Her final posts — alleging 13-hour days, six-day weeks and a threat of industry blacklisting — have turned the case into China's latest reckoning with overwork.

Autopsy Confirms Suicide of Chinese Crypto Executive Who Alleged 80-Hour Weeks and a 'Blacklist' Threat

28 Sep 2026

In his final days the 92-year-old actor chose to stop eating and drinking, and his family neither force-fed him nor rushed him to hospital — moistening his lips instead. His daughter's account of a calm, unhurried death at home, and the family's decision to donate every condolence gift to his charity foundation, has reopened a conversation about what a good death looks like in China.

How You Benchang's Family Let the 'Ji Gong' Actor Die on His Own Terms

28 Sep 2026

For 12,000 Yuan, a Life: Why Young Chinese Are Buying Houses on the Edge of the Taiga

28 Sep 2026

Hunan Rescue Workers Uncover a 424,000-Yuan Pension a Scavenger Never Knew He Had

27 Sep 2026

A Taiwanese man posted his grandfather's photograph and a decades-old Guangdong address on Xiaohongshu; within a night, the platform's recommendation engine had found his relatives, and this Mid-Autumn he was welcomed back to the village with drums and a 'family reunion' arch — a story Weibo is reading as an argument about the strait.

Xiaohongshu Found a Taiwanese Man's Long-Lost Family in One Night

25 Sep 2026

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.

China's Slow Trains Now Have Women-Only Sleeper Compartments

24 Sep 2026

China Debates the 'Perfect Mother-in-Law' Who Sends Her Whole Pension to Her Daughter-in-Law

24 Sep 2026

A visually impaired visitor was asked by staff whether she could stop using her white cane because the park was crowded. Shanghai Disney has now apologized and clarified that cane users need no advance registration.

Shanghai Disney Apologizes After a Visitor Was Told to Put Away Her White Cane

24 Sep 2026

Zhang Jiaqi's Mother Cannot Legally Keep Her Prize Money, Lawyers Say

22 Sep 2026

A Gold Necklace an Olympic Champion Never Saw: Viewers Rally Around Diver Zhang Jiaqi

20 Sep 2026

The Costumes Are on the Actors: Inside Zhengzhou's Short-Drama Boom

20 Sep 2026