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China's Mid-Autumn Festival break runs September 25 to 27 without any weekend-shuffling 'tiaoxiu' — a first in years that state media celebrated and road-trippers noted comes with normal expressway tolls. The arrangement is a window into the calendar engineering Chinese workers love to hate.
One of China's best-known debaters deleted her promotional video for the drama 'Early Spring Clear Sky' after viewers argued its feminist branding could not survive its plot — the latest collision between how Chinese dramas market feminism and how their audiences audit it.
Xiaomi launches the 18 Fold, its first 'mid-fold,' expected from around 12,000 yuan, hours after Huawei's global tri-fold event — a September 'super week' in which Chinese makers are writing the foldable playbook Apple is rumoured to follow.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A national-news roundup of the ten everyday products that shed microplastics — from chewing gum to scratched nonstick pans — has spread across Weibo and Baidu, attaching hard numbers to a fear many Chinese consumers already carry about plastic in food, delivery containers and even clothing.
A mother checking her five-year-old daughter's electronic medical record at a town clinic in Guangdong found the word "demanding" — 刁蛮 — written into the child's permanent history by a doctor after a consultation dispute. The case has ended with the doctor under formal investigation and the record corrected.
The comedian Chuonalisa spent her weekend denying that her slimmer figure came from a weight-loss injection. The accusation — and the 46,000 likes on her denial — say something about how China's fast arrival of GLP-1 drugs has changed what the public believes about any transformed body.
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