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TVB Brings 'War and Beauty' to China's Short-Drama Boom

Hong Kong's flagship broadcaster TVB is making its first vertical-screen drama — a spinoff of its 2004 palace classic 'War and Beauty' — with ByteDance's Hongguo, the mainland platform whose short-drama audience has redrawn what a television series can look like.

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JD Pledges to Back Its Employee in a Defamation Suit Brought by Douyin

A procurement employee's WeChat posts accusing a rival platform of rigging its trending topics have drawn a defamation suit from Douyin — and a company-wide promise from JD.com to help him sue back, as China's e-commerce giants head into the Double 11 shopping festival.

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Xu Yiyang Livestreams Through Tears to Deny Surrogacy Rumors About Her Child

After weeks of speculation that her child was born to a surrogate, the singer and influencer Xu Yiyang took to a livestream to answer her critics point by point — and left the internet arguing about what celebrity families owe the public.