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vivo launched its X500 flagship line in Shenzhen at 5,499 yuan and up, and immediately took heat for it — the first phone out in a season when every Chinese maker is repricing upward on memory costs.
A 25-year-old Chinese tourist spent a night hidden in shrubland on a Malaysian resort island after fighting off a man who broke into her room before dawn; police have arrested an 18-year-old suspect and China's consulate is following the case.
Villages, counties and at least one famous retailer are paying Chinese couples cash to marry — 1,500 to 50,000 yuan — as the country's marriage and birth numbers keep falling. The arguments start in the fine print.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Beijing confirmed on Monday that Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States from 23 to 25 September at President Trump's invitation — the second leaders' summit in four months, with rare-earth leverage, truce terms and a proposed AI-safety channel on the table.
A Politburo meeting on Monday expelled Zhang Youxia, one of two vice chairmen of the Central Military Commission, and former joint staff chief Liu Zhenli from the party over corruption and 'forming cliques' — the most senior military fall in China in a decade, announced two days before Xi Jinping flies to Washington.
China's 21-year-old rifle champion defended his Asian Games title with a 254.2 final that broke the Asian record he already held, hours after a world-record team gold in Nagoya — the centrepiece of a Chinese squad that took eleven golds on the first day of competition alone.
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