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Wang Feng played Taiyuan on Tuesday; by Thursday the Jing Tian and Justin Sun saga had swept him off the trending boards, and Chinese social media duly declared that 'Wang Feng's Law' — the thirteen-year-old joke that every Wang Feng career move coincides with a celebrity scandal — had struck again.
Huawei has opened pre-orders for the Pura X View, marketed as the world's first 'wide slab' phone, as reviewers test whether a wider rectangle changes how a handset feels — a form-factor gamble set against a market forecast to shrink in volume while climbing sharply in price.
New reporting puts a lifetime Nike contract worth at least 14 million yuan a year behind Liu Xiang's refusal of the Shanghai sports bureau's placement offer — turning a personnel dispute into a public audit of how China's state sports system shares its champions' commercial value, and what it owes them after.
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A Nanjing graduate student kept being woken by her own twitching legs, and doctors traced the cause to years of surviving on snacks instead of meals — a warning that resonates with China's exam-squeezed young people.
A well-known writer was asked to give up his seat inside a Shanghai Starbucks for customers with dogs, triggering a national argument over the line between pet-friendly and pet-first, and a change in the store's policy.
The TRON founder has taken actress Jing Tian to court over the return of what his lawyer calls a bride price, reigniting a public argument about money, romance and gender in China.
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