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Sichuan University's aid rules disqualify students who smoke, drink heavily or game obsessively from tuition waivers — a clause that has existed since 2016 and went viral again this week. The argument it reopened is an old one: whether aid for the poor should also police how the poor spend their money.
A father in Shaanxi bought a 4.5-yuan metal ring advertised to cut his gas bill in half; within a month his wife and 16-year-old son were dead of carbon monoxide poisoning. With the final verdict now upholding damages from the maker, the seller and the shopping platform, his public account of the deaths has put one of China's most common kitchen hazards back on trial.
A television investigation found coded listings for underage prostitution on Xianyu, China's largest second-hand marketplace, steering buyers off the platform onto WeChat. The company's answer — a special task force and 98,000 banned accounts — has turned a routine moderation scandal into a national argument over whether platforms can be held responsible for the trade they cannot see.
A sweeping revision of China's Housing Provident Fund Regulations took effect on September 20, expanding what the compulsory savings scheme can pay for from six scenarios to nine — renovation, property fees and easier rent withdrawals among them. It is the fund's biggest overhaul in years, and it signals how Beijing wants household money to move.
The family of Wang Ran, a 24-year-old livestream host from Nanjing, says she was tricked into a Thailand trip by an online acquaintance, moved across the border into Myanmar and is now being held for a 600,000-yuan ransom — the latest case in the region's long-running scam-compound crisis.
A villager who farmed ten hornet colonies in unfenced woodland near a field goes on trial Monday in Yunnan for negligent homicide, after a seven-year-old boy and his two-year-old sister — migrant workers' children — were stung to death; the case has become a referendum on China's unregulated hornet-farming business.
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