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A wedding video in which nine maternal uncles arrive with nine differently dyed heads of hair has become China's favourite family story of the week, thanks to a pun about giving troublemakers 'a bit of colour' — and a reminder of the special standing of a mother's brother.
A Shanghai Mouse-style cast of invented 'Paris Kings' and 'Dubai Princes' has appeared on China's lifestyle platform, and The Paper's fact-checking desk has traced how the personas are built and what they are selling.
A Chinese team has built and run the world's first nuclear optical clock, using a rare isotope of thorium and a purpose-built ultraviolet laser, and published the result in Nature — a milestone that moves precision timekeeping from the atom's electrons into its nucleus.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A hotel cleaner's post about guests who merge twin beds for their children and leave them that way has struck a Golden Week nerve: rooms built for two, families of four on holiday, and the reset work landing on housekeeping.
Cristiano Ronaldo's 1,800-word apology for leaving the Portugal camp mid-tournament — he asked to be punished as captain — has drawn a ferocious rebuttal from Portuguese football writers and split Chinese fans into two camps.
Homework now arrives at Chinese families as a file in a class chat group, and the cost of printing it — up to 300 yuan a semester for one subject — has set off a national argument about who should supply the paper.
7 Oct 2026
7 Oct 2026
7 Oct 2026
7 Oct 2026
7 Oct 2026