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China's Script Murder Venues Are Under Scrutiny Over 'Romance Scripts' and Minors

A crackdown on China's script murder industry is focusing on 'romance scripts', where actors play a customer's one-on-one sweetheart in sessions that can blur into paid intimacy. A lawyer's post about a 16-year-old who spent 170,000 yuan on one script has turned a niche corner of the live-gaming industry into a national debate.

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A Famous Chinese Maths Tutor Wants English Demoted as a Core School Subject

Tang Jiafeng, one of China's best-known exam-prep tutors, has publicly called for English to lose its status as a core school subject, calling decades of compulsory English a waste of most students' time. The argument landed at the top of two platforms at once — and reopened an old fight over what Chinese children owe the world's language.

A Shanghai project manager refused an overnight hard-seat train to Chengdu that would have had her punch in by 9 a.m. after a night without sleep, and was fired for absenteeism. Labor arbitration has ruled the dismissal unlawful — and the case has become a national talking point about who absorbs the cost of cheap business travel.