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Man Detained for Fake Prostitution Reports Aimed at Girlfriend's Workplace

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Man Detained for Fake Prostitution Reports Aimed at Girlfriend's Workplace

A 44-year-old man in Jiangxi spent six months phoning in fabricated prostitution complaints against the foot-spa where his girlfriend works, hoping inspections would push her to quit. Investigators traced the calls; he received five days of administrative detention.

China Eastern Reports the 'Kneeling' Passenger to Police and Bans Him From Its Flights

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China Eastern Reports the 'Kneeling' Passenger to Police and Bans Him From Its Flights

Three days after footage of a flight attendant kneeling to apologize went viral, China Eastern says it has reported passenger Ou to the police for disrupting order aboard the aircraft, suspended his carriage, and taken on legal costs for the crew member.

Beijing Defends Starbucks's Xinjiang Expansion Against US 'Morally Bankrupt' Charge

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Beijing Defends Starbucks's Xinjiang Expansion Against US 'Morally Bankrupt' Charge

A US House committee attacked Starbucks's first stores in Xinjiang as 'morally bankrupt'; China's foreign ministry called the genocide claim behind it a lie and billed the openings as proof of China's openness to foreign business.

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Chinese Couple Killed on Australia's Western Highway, a Road Rated 'Extremely High Risk'

3 Oct 2026

The G7 will release 100 million barrels of strategic oil reserves over four months to ease record diesel prices. On Chinese social media, the 'joint action' reads less like alliance consensus than an ultimatum — release the barrels, or Washington restricts diesel exports.

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100 Million Barrels of 'Consensus': Chinese Readers See American Muscle Behind the G7's Oil Release

3 Oct 2026

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Jiang Ge's Mother's Eight-Year Defamation Case Becomes a State Prosecution

3 Oct 2026

The murder trial of three members of Abby Choi's ex-husband's family opened at Hong Kong's High Court this week, two and a half years after the socialite was killed and dismembered. Prosecutors say the killing was planned for weeks: a rented village house, matched storage bins, a meat grinder — and an inquiry about a bone grinder that ended in a decision not to buy.

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Prosecutors Say Abby Choi's In-Laws Bought Dismemberment Tools Weeks Before Her Killing

2 Oct 2026

At a National Day reception in Washington, China's ambassador Xie Feng said the two leaders are expected to meet again in Shenzhen and in Miami before the end of 2026 — a schedule that would turn September's thaw into a standing fixture, and one Vladimir Putin has already asked to join.

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Beijing's Envoy Says Trump and Xi May Meet Twice More Before Year's End

2 Oct 2026

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Four Chinese Cities Move Together to Rein In Pre-Sale Home Sales

1 Oct 2026

A slap from a PE teacher in 2023 left a Guangdong sixth-grader deaf in one ear. Police called it an internal school matter and closed the file — until two courts ordered the investigation reopened, re-igniting the debate over where classroom discipline ends and criminal assault begins.

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Courts Overrule Police Who Closed the Case of the Slap That Deafened a Pupil

1 Oct 2026

A long essay explaining two pieces of Chinese nursing-home slang has been read millions of times over the holiday: 吃绝户, 'eating the last of the line,' the quiet downgrading of care for residents whose families rarely visit, and 翻床率, 'bed-turnover rate,' the churning of beds for revenue. With 323 million citizens over 60 and roughly two million in institutions, the essay's closing demand — that a bed, a hot meal and an answer to the call button should not come in grades — is the argument now running through China's social feeds.

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'Eating the Last of the Line': the Unwritten Grading System in China's Nursing Homes

1 Oct 2026

Israel has identified the wounded captain of Flydubai flight FZ1073 as Indian national Smit Machchhar, and the passenger credited with saving the plane as a plumber who had never flown but had watched enough aviation-disaster documentaries to know what to do — as Trump retells it, 'maybe a terrorist, maybe a madman' was in the cockpit.

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An Israeli Plumber Grabbed the Controls: The New Details in the Flydubai Cockpit Stabbing

1 Oct 2026

Newly released government figures show 6.765 million couples registered marriages in China in 2025, up 10.8 percent on the year before — the first annual increase since 2013, and the first sign of a turn in the demographic statistic Beijing watches most nervously.

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China's Marriages Rise for the First Time in Thirteen Years

1 Oct 2026

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Elon Musk Calls US-China Trade 'Conjoined Twins' in Rare People's Daily Interview

1 Oct 2026

With direct tickets gone for the National Day rush, third-party platforms are advising passengers to book past their destination and forfeit the difference. The railway's answer — submit a waitlist and wait — has not calmed anyone.

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'Buy Long, Ride Short': Why China's Holiday Travelers Are Paying for Seats They Never Use

1 Oct 2026

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Pang Dong Lai Will Move Its Staff to a 35-Hour Week From March 2027

1 Oct 2026

As Beijing searches for ways to lift weak consumption, a blunt proposal keeps resurfacing: just give everyone money. This week's trending counter-question — why so many Chinese dislike universal handouts — opens a window on how people think the economy actually works.

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Why Chinese Posters Recoil From the Idea of Universal Cash Handouts

30 Sep 2026

A state reception at the Great Hall of the People opened China's 77th National Day on Wednesday evening, with Xi Jinping pairing ceremony at Tiananmen Square with a holiday that officials expect to move 2.13 billion trips — against persistent worry that record travelers will not mean record spending.

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China Marks 77 Years as Its Longest Holiday Begins — With 2.13 Billion Trips Booked Against a Soft Economy

30 Sep 2026