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In Portland's top-of-the-Western-Conference NBA Cup game against the Los Angeles Lakers, second-year centre Yang Hansen played meaningful rotation minutes for the first time this season — drew a foul on Walker Kessler, held his own against Luka Doncic, and heard about it all from Damian Lillard.
T1's 3-1 win over KC completed the semifinal bracket at the 2026 World Championship, setting BLG against T1 and iG against GEN. Whichever way it falls, this year's champion will include a player winning a second title — and Faker is still chasing his seventh.
Mango TV's "Houhui Youqi" reunites singers and actors from the mid-2000s and lets them talk, travel and occasionally quarrel without a script. It now commands a 74 percent audience share, its lines have leaked into everyday speech — and its biggest fight this week happened off-camera, in Ma Tianyu's livestream.
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When The Weeknd debuted a new song called 'Hong Kong' at his show in the city, built on a sample of Faye Wong's 1993 Cantopop track 'Season Wind', the 33-year-old song shot back up Chinese charts — and became the latest proof that Chinese pop's afterlife now runs through Western sampling.
21,300 barbershops shut down or changed hands in the first quarter of 2026 alone, as the 10-yuan, 10-minute, no-appointment quick-cut chain model strips out the upselling that made a haircut a negotiation — and leaves behind a fight over who gets to cut women's hair at all.
China's broadcast regulator has launched a two-month campaign targeting low-quality and vulgar AI micro-dramas, an industry where nine in ten new titles are now machine-made — and one listed company that traded as an AI-drama concept stock for five straight limit-up days had to deny it makes any.
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