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Idol Sun Yihang Denies Dating Rumors and Apologizes After Leaked Photos Ignite Weibo Controversy

Sun Yihang, a rising star with Yi’an Music Club and a former contestant on the popular Chinese talent show “Youth With You 3,” found himself at the centre of a heated online controversy in early August. The spark came when a series of photographs and screenshots of private messages were circulated on Chinese social media, showing the 22‑year‑old idol holding hands with a young woman identified in the rumors as a “female classmate.” Accompanying the images were allegedly intimate chat logs that suggested a romantic involvement.

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6.3‑Magnitude Tremor Hits Eastern Turkey, Renewing Concerns Over Ongoing Seismic Crisis and Its Economic‑Political Fallout

A shallow 6.3‑magnitude tremor rattled eastern Turkey in the early hours of August 11, 2025, sending fresh shockwaves through a nation still scarred by a series of powerful earthquakes over the past two years. The quake, recorded at 00:53 Beijing time (19:53 local time on August 10) by the China Earthquake Networks Center, struck near 39.20° N, 27.95° E at a depth of just 10 kilometres. Chinese media outlets carried the report within minutes, underscoring the global reach of Turkey’s seismic volatility.

China’s industrial playbook has entered a new phase, one that is being shouted from the podiums of party congresses, woven into five‑year plans and echoed in the tweets of state‑run media. The phrase “actively promoting the high‑end, intelligent, and green development of industries” – a translation of the Chinese slogan 积极促进产业高端化智能化绿色化 – has become the rallying cry for a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s manufacturing base. What began as a line in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party in October 2022 is now manifesting as a suite of policies, financing packages, and on‑the‑ground projects that aim to lift China’s factories from the cheap‑labour, polluting tier of the past into a future where robots, data and clean energy are the norm rather than the exception.