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A Hebei buyer kept 4.5 kilograms of sweet potatoes and took the refund; the Shandong merchant drove overnight to retrieve them. The feud is the sharpest recent telling of China's fight over the 'refund-only' platform rule.
A Shanxi hospital handed a pregnant woman a labour-inducing drug instead of her pregnancy-supporting injection; she caught it at the window. The near-miss has reopened China's debate on pharmacy checks at county hospitals.
A seven-year-old's Iceland vlogs top China's trending lists, but the debates underneath are about class and childhood: why the family hides a marriage, defends a public school, and answers for an expired fever medicine.
The week's biggest stories from Chinese social media.
Apple has asked suppliers to cut component orders for the iPhone 18 Pro by at least 15 percent after soaring memory-chip prices forced prices up and dulled demand in one of its most important markets — just three weeks after the phone went on sale in China.
China's foreign ministry says right-wing groups in Japan have been feeding tampered Second World War material into major AI models, so that chatbots describe the Nanjing massacre as 'the fall of Nanjing' and Japan's invasion of Southeast Asia as 'concern for southern resources'.
Lanxiang Rugu, the period drama topping CCTV-8's prime-time slot, ended a major character's run this week — and his actor's 1,100-character farewell letter, answered in character by his co-star, has turned a television death into the week's most-touched fandom moment.
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