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Victor Wembanyama scored a career-high 52 points with 24 rebounds and 8 blocks in the San Antonio Spurs' 112-111 win over Dallas — a statistical line with no precedent since blocks were first recorded. On Weibo, where the 22-year-old French star has become the most-watched NBA player, the performance read as confirmation of a months-long fascination.
A 60-year-old woman in Ningbo spent days hammering her abdomen with a massage gun to burn off what she took for belly fat; the growth was ovarian cancer, and the larger of two tumors measured 15 centimeters. Doctors say she came within a membrane's thickness of seeding cancer through her abdominal cavity — and they are using the case to warn about China's favorite recovery gadget.
A Chinese university student was caught completing mandatory campus runs for classmates while carrying eleven phones in a military-surplus chest rig — and refused to hand over their names. The viral episode has turned into a referendum on the compulsory running apps Chinese universities use to make students exercise.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
A week after launch, Apple's first foldable has done the unthinkable in China's resale market: the scalpers are losing money — six-figure losses — while Apple's AI features, finally cleared for the mainland with Alibaba's models, became the real story of the week.
Xi Jinping hosted Oman's Sultan Haitham in Beijing on a visit state media framed around two monuments — one in Guangzhou, one in Salalah — commemorating a maritime friendship dating to an 8th-century Omani voyage to Tang-dynasty China, the voyage said to have inspired Sinbad.
A Shanghai woman checks into a hotel on Monday and out on Friday, paying 3,600 yuan a month with breakfast and cleaning included — cheaper than a local flat. Hotels are courting the trend, and lawyers say the contracts are the catch.
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