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Officials Verify the Welfare Cancellation Behind China's Hong Kong Concert Debate

Ganzhou's civil affairs bureau says it is still verifying the case of the vocational student whose Hong Kong concert trip cost her family its dibao benefits, as lawyers set out the rules that make the cancellation legal — and the proportionality question that keeps the argument burning.

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Xingyu Auto Lighting Punishes Its Executives for Terminating 107 New Graduates

A month after Changzhou automotive lighting supplier Xingyu let 107 of its newest graduate hires go — offering a 'voluntary' resignation with minimal compensation or a forced move to the assembly line — the company has docked its general manager a year's pay and fired its HR director. The unusually explicit mea culpa is meeting scepticism on Chinese social media.

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With Young Viewers Gone, Chinese TV's Remaining Business Is Selling Medicine to the Elderly

A viral post alleging that every Chinese TV channel except children's channels now sells medicine has crystallised years of complaint about television's retreat into drug and health-product advertising — aimed at the elderly viewers who are the only audience left, and whom regulators say they are protecting.

An owners' committee in Nanping, Fujian has voted to bar new-energy vehicles from its underground car park and given residents ten days to move them, on the property manager's fear of fire. Lawyers call the ban an unlawful infringement of owners' parking rights — the sharpest local skirmish yet in China's collision between its EV boom and ageing residential infrastructure.

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Homeowners Vote to Ban Electric Cars From Their Own Underground Garage, and Lawyers Say the Vote Means Nothing

6 Sep 2026

Life Stories

She Donated Monthly for Years. When She Stopped, the Charity Called to Ask Why.

6 Sep 2026

News & Politics

Demoted to 3,000 Yuan a Month After Announcing Her Pregnancy, a Property Manager Is Fired for 'Missing Targets'

6 Sep 2026

Health

Gum, Paper Cups, Takeout Boxes: the Ten Everyday Products a Viral Chinese Roundup Flags for Microplastics

6 Sep 2026

Health

Doctor Under Investigation After a Five-Year-Old's Medical Record Was Labelled 'Demanding'

6 Sep 2026

Culture

Accused of Secret Weight-Loss Jabs, a Chinese Comedian Answered With Math

6 Sep 2026

A last-second layup by Yang Shuyu forced overtime and China's women's basketball team escaped the Czech Republic 74-70 at the World Cup — but 29 turnovers and coach Gong Luming's handling of 19-year-old phenom Zhang Ziyu trended as loudly as the win.

Sports

China's Women Survive a 29-Turnover Scare at the World Cup — and the Fans Want Answers

6 Sep 2026

$A Chinese vlogger streaming from Piccadilly Circus says a group of young men shouted racial abuse at him, tried to rob him and beat him, fracturing his back. What turned the attack into a national talking point in China was the response he says he got from London police: the case was logged as common assault, with no officers dispatched.$

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Chinese Vlogger Beaten During London Livestream Says Police Dismissed His Case as Minor

6 Sep 2026

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Four Pieces of Beef Jerky, 64.58 Yuan: Regulators Crack Down on China's Bulk Snack Chains

6 Sep 2026

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China's Biggest Banks to Raise $50 Billion as Bad-Loan Cleanout Gathers Pace

6 Sep 2026

A court in Ergun, Inner Mongolia, will hold a second hearing on September 8 in the prosecution of a husband accused of raping his wife while the couple waited out their divorce cooling-off period — a rare marital-rape trial that is testing how Chinese law treats violence between spouses.

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Inner Mongolia Marital Rape Case Returns to Court as Victim Demands 300,000 Yuan

6 Sep 2026

Health

Three Hours Washing a Stool Sample: the Liver Fluke Case Behind China's Raw-Fish Warning

6 Sep 2026

A guesthouse owner in central Chongqing spent this summer watching half his rooms sit empty a five-minute walk from the city's top attractions, and on the last day of the school holidays put his three-year-old business up for sale. His plight is the industry's: some 375,000 Chinese minsu now compete on sameness and price as young travelers drift to hotels, concerts and festivals.

Travel

Booked Solid No More: China's Young Travelers Are Falling Out of Love With Minsu

6 Sep 2026

Health

After the Knife in the Banner, China's Hospitals Confront the Security-Check Question

6 Sep 2026

A Beijing graduate student sold 124,000 yuan of family gold bars on the secondhand marketplace Xianyu, only to have every bank account he owns frozen by police in Hunan — because the buyer turned out to be a fraud-laundering runner. Beijing police cleared him of any crime within weeks, but three months on, Hunan authorities still have not unfrozen his funds, igniting a national debate over how anti-fraud policing ensnares the innocent.

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He Sold His Gold, and the Money Froze: a Cross-Provincial Freeze Snags an Innocent Seller

6 Sep 2026

After tourists' laser pens, shouted greetings and livestream crews drove a 75-year-old Shaoxing man to cut down the seven gourds that made him famous, the story has turned again: he has refused offers to buy them — 'priceless,' he says — visitors are thinning out, and the city's tourism bureau has sided publicly with his quiet.

Life Stories

'Calabash Grandpa' Refuses to Sell His Seven Gourds as the Crowds Recede

6 Sep 2026

When a Ferrari burst into flames at Shanghai's China GT round with its driver trapped inside, Dutch racer Loek Hartog abandoned his own race and pulled the man out with his bare hands. The 49-second rescue made him a national talking point — and turned attention on the safety arrangements that left a private individual as the de facto fire crew.

Sports

After a Driver Pulled a Rival From a Burning Car, China GT's Safety Response Comes Under Scrutiny

6 Sep 2026

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Officials Verify the Welfare Cancellation Behind China's Hong Kong Concert Debate

Xingyu Auto Lighting Punishes Its Executives for Terminating 107 New Graduates

With Young Viewers Gone, Chinese TV's Remaining Business Is Selling Medicine to the Elderly

Homeowners Vote to Ban Electric Cars From Their Own Underground Garage, and Lawyers Say the Vote Means Nothing

She Donated Monthly for Years. When She Stopped, the Charity Called to Ask Why.

Demoted to 3,000 Yuan a Month After Announcing Her Pregnancy, a Property Manager Is Fired for 'Missing Targets'

Gum, Paper Cups, Takeout Boxes: the Ten Everyday Products a Viral Chinese Roundup Flags for Microplastics

Doctor Under Investigation After a Five-Year-Old's Medical Record Was Labelled 'Demanding'

Accused of Secret Weight-Loss Jabs, a Chinese Comedian Answered With Math

China's Women Survive a 29-Turnover Scare at the World Cup — and the Fans Want Answers

Chinese Vlogger Beaten During London Livestream Says Police Dismissed His Case as Minor

Four Pieces of Beef Jerky, 64.58 Yuan: Regulators Crack Down on China's Bulk Snack Chains

China's Biggest Banks to Raise $50 Billion as Bad-Loan Cleanout Gathers Pace

Inner Mongolia Marital Rape Case Returns to Court as Victim Demands 300,000 Yuan

Three Hours Washing a Stool Sample: the Liver Fluke Case Behind China's Raw-Fish Warning

Booked Solid No More: China's Young Travelers Are Falling Out of Love With Minsu

After the Knife in the Banner, China's Hospitals Confront the Security-Check Question

He Sold His Gold, and the Money Froze: a Cross-Provincial Freeze Snags an Innocent Seller

'Calabash Grandpa' Refuses to Sell His Seven Gourds as the Crowds Recede

After a Driver Pulled a Rival From a Burning Car, China GT's Safety Response Comes Under Scrutiny