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Jiang Qiulian has spent a decade in courtrooms since her graduate-student daughter was murdered in Tokyo — first in a civil suit against the friend at whose door Jiang Ge died, then against the strangers who abused the family online. This week she posted that the final suit, a private criminal prosecution in Gansu, is nearly done.
The reality-TV figure Mai Lin says she went from about 65 kilograms to 46 in seven months — and a top-tier hospital's weight-management clinic rendered the verdict Chinese social media was waiting for: the pace is compliant, the target too aggressive, and the plan not for ordinary people to imitate.
Two stores — a flagship inside Urumqi's International Grand Bazaar and one at the international airport — bring Starbucks into a region where, until this week, there was none.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A variety-show joke by Shen Teng — China's biggest box-office draw — and a wry question from actress Li Xiaoran have gone viral because they are not really jokes: production starts at Hengdian are down to about a third of last year's level, and even established stars say the phone has stopped ringing.
The murder trial of three members of Abby Choi's ex-husband's family opened at Hong Kong's High Court this week, two and a half years after the socialite was killed and dismembered. Prosecutors say the killing was planned for weeks: a rented village house, matched storage bins, a meat grinder — and an inquiry about a bone grinder that ended in a decision not to buy.
A viral complaint that China's new television dramas are 'all milk-tea names' — poetic, pastel and past explanation — has turned into the internet's favourite naming game, and a small argument about what television titles are for.
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