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A court ruled that housing funds a man inherited from his mother during marriage — over 4 million yuan discovered after the divorce — are joint marital property and must be shared, reviving the debate over a Chinese-law default that 99.93 percent of will-makers explicitly refuse.
Nobel neuroscientist Thomas Südhof told a Shanghai conference that synapses aren't transistors and medicine is 'always about the individual' — while students on the same day's hot list learned to spot the 'AI flavor' in essays, the same verdict from the bottom up.
A woman who read a book in a Guangzhou station for five hours was charged a 15-yuan 'overtime fee' under a 270-minute travel limit few riders knew existed — and the operator's defense that 'the metro is not a place to linger' has collided with its own reading rooms and gyms.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A red-carpet broadcast gap, a wrongly accused actress and a claim that a star's Zuhair Murad gown was bought rather than borrowed turned Bazaar's annual gala in Jiangyin into seven trending topics — and exposed the quiet economy behind Chinese celebrity couture.
A driver died when his AITO M9 struck a lamp pole and caught fire on a road in Shenmu, Shaanxi. The automaker's account — 139 km/h, a driver at the wheel, no battery fault — now has an unlikely rival: frame-by-frame reconstructions posted on Weibo that come out at a third of the speed.
Nursing homes in Nanning and Beijing are offering young people cheap rooms in exchange for hours of volunteer time with elderly residents — an experiment in 'intergenerational co-living' that speaks to China's twin pressures of youth housing costs and a rapidly ageing population.
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