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Pang Dong Lai Will Hire New Staff on Four-Year Contracts — and Never Renew Them

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Pang Dong Lai Will Hire New Staff on Four-Year Contracts — and Never Renew Them

Yu Donglai, founder of China's most admired supermarket chain, announced that all new hires will be 'trainees' on four-year contracts that are never renewed, with graduates' names published online — a policy that has Chinese social media asking what a good job now even is.

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WeChat Has Disciplined 91,000 Accounts This Year in a Crackdown on Fake Official Names

A fresh WeChat notice on account-name fraud — fake government bureaus, bogus 'news media' handles, unverified professional titles — reported 91,226 accounts disciplined so far this year, up sharply from a month earlier. The campaign is part of the wider Qinglang cleanup of China's internet.

A Court Is Auctioning a 'Yongle Encyclopedia' From 1 Yuan, Without Checking If It Is Real

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A Court Is Auctioning a 'Yongle Encyclopedia' From 1 Yuan, Without Checking If It Is Real

A county court in Xinjiang has listed a volume titled 'Yongle Encyclopedia' on Alibaba's judicial auction platform with a starting price of 1 yuan — and told bidders it never authenticated the object, selling it strictly as a handicraft, as is. More than 600 people are watching.

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Beijing Court Orders Sisters to Return ¥4 Million From a Flat Their Elder Sister Paid For in 2000

12 Sep 2026

China had nearly 30,000 fewer primary schools in 2025 than in 2020, the Ministry of Education's newly released bulletin shows, and with enrolment down four million pupils in a single year, villages are quietly turning their empty schoolhouses into nursing homes, elder canteens and factories — the clearest sign yet of how fast the country's demographic turnaround is redrawing everyday life.

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As Pupil Numbers Fall, China Is Converting Empty Primary Schools Into Nursing Homes

12 Sep 2026

A six-day-old girl was wheeled out of her mother's room for a feeding at a Guangzhou postpartum center and was declared dead two hours later; doctors suctioned milk residue from her airway. Police have accepted a negligent-homicide complaint against her caregiver — while the center stays open, blames a pre-existing illness, and neither side will release the surveillance video.

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A Newborn Died at a Guangzhou Confinement Center With Milk in Her Airway

12 Sep 2026

Xi Jinping arrived in New Delhi on Saturday for the 18th BRICS summit — his first trip to India in seven years — and met Narendra Modi the same day, as Putin mocked the G7's shrinking share of world GDP and Beijing prepared to take over the bloc's chairmanship in 2027.

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BRICS Gathers in New Delhi as Xi Pays His First India Visit in Seven Years

12 Sep 2026

Two national-level trade fairs — CIFTIS in Beijing and CIFIT in Xiamen — closed a week of courting foreign buyers and investors, with state media promoting them as one story: 'two expos, China's opportunity.' The tech on show, from computing-power services to humanoid robots, marks how China now sells itself.

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Two Mega-Fairs, One Pitch: China Courts the World With Services and Robots

12 Sep 2026

A 66-year-old internet-famous Thai abbot accused of diverting 92 million baht in temple donations was defrocked this week, with police seizing gold and cash that required money-counting machines to tally. The case has gripped Chinese social media, where the saffron robe is a familiar figure from millions of tourists' holidays.

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Famous Thai Abbot Defrocked Over $3 Million Temple Donation Scandal

12 Sep 2026

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Chengdu's Traffic Police Are Coming for Slow Drivers

12 Sep 2026

A private high school in Taikang County, Henan, handed its 50-plus senior-year teachers 1.81 million yuan in cash bonuses on Teacher's Day — up to 76,000 yuan each — pegged directly to their classes' college-entrance-exam results.

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A Private School Marked Teacher's Day by Handing Its Gaokao Teachers $250,000 in Cash

12 Sep 2026

Second-graders at a Wuhan school whose families had not paid for the optional carton of 'student milk' were filmed standing at the back of the classroom with water cups. The district called it a misunderstanding; parents and commentators are not letting it go.

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The Wuhan Pupils Made to Stand at the Back and Drink Water Over Unordered Milk

12 Sep 2026

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Restaurant Owner Who Reported a Missing Yuan Vase Says Five Agencies Came Knocking

12 Sep 2026

Weeks after Changsha authorities sealed two underground surrogacy clinics, photographs of a health-enforcement raid surfaced inside the surrogacy trade's own chat groups — and the anti-trafficking volunteer who triggered the raid says the leak means someone inside enforcement is tipping the industry off.

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Photos From a Sealed Changsha Surrogacy Clinic Turned Up in the Industry's Own Chat Groups

11 Sep 2026

Li Tuchun, who turned an 88.88-million-yuan CCTV advertising gamble into one of China's biggest dairy brands and then lost everything to a criminal case he survived and was acquitted in, died on September 8 — and Weibo is putting the officials who dismantled his company back on trial.

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Taizi Milk Founder Li Tuchun Dies, Reopening the Case That Took His Milk Empire

11 Sep 2026

Xi Jinping travels to New Delhi this weekend for the 18th BRICS summit, arriving as Putin and Iran's leadership gather under Modi's hostmanship, with wars in the Middle East and Ukraine and a global trade fight on the agenda — and a cautious China-India thaw as the meeting's real subtext.

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Xi Heads to New Delhi for a BRICS Summit Held Against a Thawing China-India Backdrop

11 Sep 2026

Two Guangxi neighbors shared one reservoir intake — bananas on one side, bullfrog ponds on the other. After three days of fungicide killed 25,000 kilograms of frogs, the courts ruled the banana farmer 70% liable.

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A Banana Farmer's Fungicide Killed His Neighbor's Bullfrogs by the Ten Thousand Kilograms. Courts Split the Bill.

11 Sep 2026

Tie Tou built millions of followers exposing rigged scales and illegal tutoring. A Hangzhou court ruled the anti-fraud persona was a protection racket — and gave the 'evil forces organization' eight years.

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China's Most Famous 'Anti-Fraud' Influencer Is Sentenced to Eight Years for Extortion

11 Sep 2026