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A viral Weibo thread has distilled China's best anti-fraud advice into a single habit: keep the phone on silent and never pick up an unknown number. Behind the jokes about 47 missed calls is a generational gap that scammers still know how to exploit.
A viral Weibo thread asks for the difference between 男频 and 女频 — the two poles of China's web-fiction universe — and readers answered with a flood of comic examples. The jokes double as a map of two very different fantasies about power and love.
Retail gold in China has climbed back above 1,400 yuan per gram, and consumers who bought jewelry during the recent high-price run are rushing to sell. Some are turning wedding bracelets into a profit; economists warn the run may not last.
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A mudslide that began on Nepal's side of the Himalaya swept across the Gyirong (Kyirong) border crossing into Tibet on August 26, leaving people dead and missing and cutting the road, power and communications to the port. Beijing has ordered an all-out search, and the route to the border has been sealed for seven days.
Engineer-turned-founder Zhi Huijun has unveiled two consumer robots — the Q1 and T1 — marketed as companions meant for daily home life rather than exhibition prototypes, opening pre-orders at a moment when China's humanoid-robot boom is under investor scrutiny.
After Dove apologized for a widely condemned Qixi marketing line, China's National Anti-Fraud Center said its own AI test flagged the apology as machine-generated — turning a branding stumble into a referendum on corporate crisis PR in the age of large language models.
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