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Found Safe and Still Missing: The Young Officers of Tibet's Buried Border Post

Rescuers digging through the mudslide-buried Gyirong border crossing have confirmed one much-loved young officer safe, while another, who joined the immigration police after volunteering in a previous earthquake, remains missing in the rubble.

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A Hunan Woman Was Killed a Month After Filing for Divorce, Renewing the Argument Over China's Cooling-Off Rule

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 Births Fall to 7.92 Million, a 17% Drop That Erased the Dragon-Year Bump

Figures showing 7.92 million births in China in 2025 — 1.62 million fewer than the year before, and barely three-quarters of the 2016 total — raced to the top of Baidu and Weibo, dragging along an argument about whether any policy can stop a fall that young people themselves describe as an answer, not an accident.