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Knowing They Shouldn't Buy, China's Renters Still Long for a Home of Their Own

A renter's much-shared essay about wanting a home she knows is a bad buy — every financial argument absorbed, every counter-argument ready, until the landlord texts — has become the face of the debate China's renters keep having with themselves as property prices fall.

A 'Rusting' Cancer Drug Reaches First-in-Human Trials in China

A 'Rusting' Cancer Drug Reaches First-in-Human Trials in China

Chinese teams have published the world's first human trial of a drug that kills cancer cells by inducing ferroptosis — letting iron 'rust' them from the inside. Eighteen patients, a disease-control rate of 84.2 percent, and a phase II trial with radiotherapy now underway.

Shaoxing's 'Gourd Grandpa' Stops Waving to Tourists After Two Years of Viral Fame

Shaoxing's 'Gourd Grandpa' Stops Waving to Tourists After Two Years of Viral Fame

Chen Jin'ao, 75, became a national attraction after a photo of the seven bottle gourds on his balcony spread online. On October 10 he hung a handwritten sign ending all interactions with visitors: 'From today, no more. Please understand. I love you.'

Li Leyou, the girl reality TV placed with a city family twelve years ago, moved out in September. This week a florist's account of her discounted Mother's Day bouquet went viral, the family's son accused her of secretly hiring paid trolls, and an influencer who waded in was banned — while the country argues again about who profits when a childhood is also a channel.

The 60-Yuan Bouquet at the Center of China's Biggest Influencer-Family Feud

10 Oct 2026

The Cantopop star's ashes, placed at Po Lin Monastery on Lantau Island after her 2003 death, were discovered missing on July 18 when visiting fans found her niche's plaque unscrewed and the urn gone. Her family's appeal, published on her 63rd birthday, has now made the loss public — and revived the memory of Hong Kong's blackmail wave built on stolen celebrity ashes.

News & Politics

Anita Mui's Ashes Have Been Missing From a Hong Kong Monastery Since July

10 Oct 2026

Three men flew to Bangkok for the National Day holiday. Two took a car ride on October 6 and have not been heard from since; Thai police assess they were likely moved into Myanmar, where the scam-compound industry demolished in last year's crackdown has quietly rebuilt.

News & Politics

Two Chinese Tourists Vanish in Thailand, Feared Taken Into Myanmar

10 Oct 2026

Four ministries published draft rules on Saturday banning fully flush door handles on new cars — the pop-out panels that became a signature of Chinese EV design — after viral crashes in which doors could not be opened and weeks of brake-safety alarm. Carmakers have until July 2027 to prove existing designs are safe, or recall them.

China Proposes to Ban Fully Hidden Door Handles on New Cars

10 Oct 2026

A viral account of an amniotic-fluid-embolism rescue — the deadliest obstetric emergency, billed at 60,000 yuan for one ICU night — has China arguing again about what a mother's life costs, and who in the family gets to decide.

Sixty Thousand Yuan a Night: China Reopens the Fight Over What a Mother's Rescue Costs

10 Oct 2026

News & Politics

China's First Nationwide IELTS Shutdown Strands Students Mid-Application

10 Oct 2026

Clips of Jet Li describing how his younger daughter's depression dismantled his idea of fatherhood spread across Weibo on World Mental Health Day, the same day China's science communicators published a list of mental-illness myths to knock down.

Jet Li on His Daughter's Depression: 'My Whole World Suddenly Collapsed'

10 Oct 2026

A court in Henan on Saturday sentenced Zhou Xianwang — mayor of Wuhan when the city became the first epicentre of COVID — to 14 years in prison for taking 60.5 million yuan in bribes across a 22-year career.

News & Politics

Wuhan's Pandemic-Era Mayor Zhou Xianwang Sentenced to 14 Years for Bribery

10 Oct 2026

Zheng Qinwen beat Belgium's Elise Mertens 7-5, 6-2 in Beijing on Saturday night to reach the China Open final — a round no Chinese player, man or woman, had ever reached at the tournament. On Sunday she plays Russia's Mirra Andreeva for the title.

Zheng Qinwen Becomes the First Chinese Finalist in China Open History

10 Oct 2026

A woman in Zhejiang paid 38 yuan at a roadside stall for a durian that contained no durian: a gluey artificial paste and a chunk of potato where the fruit should have been. The case has become the week's warning about buying expensive fruit you cannot watch being opened.

A Buyer Says Her 38-Yuan Street-Stall 'Durian' Held Foam Glue and a Potato

10 Oct 2026

A Long March 12 rocket put the 27th group of China's satellite-internet constellation into orbit before dawn on October 10 — the latest round in a build-out meant to end the dead zones in one of the world's most wired countries, and to hold low-orbit slots before rivals claim them.

China Launches Its 27th Group of Satellite-Internet Satellites

10 Oct 2026

Psychiatric hospitals from Hunan to Guangdong are taking down plaques that say 'psychiatric' and putting up ones that say 'People's Hospital' or 'Brain Hospital'. The stated motive is stigma; the reporting behind the trend points at least as much at insurance pricing and tight budgets.

China's Psychiatric Hospitals Are Rushing to Rename Themselves

10 Oct 2026

A mainland student hired a photographer she found on a social platform for a Golden Week shoot in Macau, at 400 yuan an hour. A police patrol caught the handover of cash; one woman now faces prosecutors and the other the labour bureau, and Macau is drafting rules that would reserve tourist-site photo work for local residents.

A 400-Yuan Photo Shoot in Macau Ended in Arrest for Two Mainland Students

10 Oct 2026

Three regulators have fined and stripped about 129 million yuan from Shuanghui Development and its executives after a supermarket sample of the company's pork showed a veterinary antibiotic at 37.5 times the legal limit — one of the heaviest food-safety penalties China has aimed at a household name.

China Fines Meat Giant Shuanghui 129 Million Yuan Over Antibiotic Residue in Pork

10 Oct 2026

Beijing police have given administrative detention to three fans who surrounded and shouted abuse at Wang Hao, head coach of China's men's table tennis team, during the WTT China Smash — the sharpest official response yet to the fan culture squeezing the sport from the inside.

China Detains Three Fans Who Heckled Table Tennis Coach Wang Hao

10 Oct 2026

A viral thread of veiled insults whose authors failed to notice them for years — from barbers, from colleagues, from a supervisor — has made 'dullness resistance', the borrowed self-help term for emotional impermeability, the concept of the week on Weibo. The jokes are about missed barbs; the undertone is a late reckoning with how many of them there were.

In Praise of Not Getting It: China Revisits the Art of 'Dullness Resistance'

10 Oct 2026

China's Table Tennis Team Is Losing Titles at Its Own Grand Smash

10 Oct 2026