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  1. 3 hours ago

    A promo video of Beijing’s Palace Museum built out of 10,600 Oreo cookies has gone viral in China. Oreo will release 6 new flavors inspired by snacks from the Forbidden City, including barbecued-pork pastry and honey red-bean cake. Read more:

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  2. 6 hours ago

    A livestreaming app has been ordered to pay $4,300 to the mother of a daredevil who died during a broadcast

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  3. 9 hours ago

    Authorities in southwestern China have opened a probe after a convicted rapist who was given a death sentence in the ’90s but was discovered living outside prison as the alleged head of a criminal gang

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  4. 12 hours ago

    Over 20,000 shoe collectors gathered at the first Sneaker Con ever held on the Chinese mainland last weekend

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  5. 15 hours ago

    “Patriarchal societies — and their avatars, whether they be business leaders or op-ed writers — face few barriers for exerting pressure on women who do not want to have children,” says Zeng Yuli in his piece on Jack Ma’s controversial childbirth speech

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  6. 18 hours ago

    Villagers in Yong’an say big-business eucalyptus farms are starving them of water. The trees have been planted for its fast-growing, high-quality wood. “We used to irrigate our land with that water, but now there’s none left,” says a farmer. Read more:

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  7. 21 hours ago

    Chinese Internet Breaks After Teen Idol Caught Smoking

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  8. May 21

    A convicted rapist sentenced to death two decades ago was discovered last month to be living outside prison as the alleged leader of a criminal gang

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  9. May 21

    ByteDance has launched a new messaging app that it hopes will challenge China’s dominant all-purpose social platform, WeChat

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  10. May 21

    Wearing a wig and lipstick, he’s playing the role of a mother living in the rural area for his viral web series. After moving back to China’s former coal capital, where the economy has slowed down, he's become a livestreamer, attracting millions of fans.

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  11. May 21

    “Some migrant women see [long-term relationships with married men] as a way to move up the social ladder, while others simply see them as a way to survive the social displacement and emotional dislocation involved in the rural-urban transition”

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  12. May 20

    “I view shoes as friends who accompany me through life and go places with me,” says a sneakerhead, who was one of over 20,000 visitors at Sneaker Con Shanghai to buy, sell, and trade with other shoe collectors

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  13. May 20

    NetEase plans to release China’s first mobile game

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  14. May 20

    29-year-old Zhang Weili has risen to become China’s highest-ranked UFC fighter, challenging prejudices that paint female fighters as brutal and dangerous

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  15. May 20

    British fighter Bianca Walkden defeated Zheng Shuyin of China at the World Taekwondo Championships, but the result has caused a storm of controversy. Read more:

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  16. May 20

    China’s Week in Photos: a building collapses in Shanghai, causing 10 deaths; over 6,000 students attend a handwriting competition in southern China; and workers catch sea cucumbers in Hebei province. See more:

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  17. May 20

    When the eucalyptus trees were first planted near the village, government officials heralded a coming economic boom. Then the water dried up. Residents are now suing the local government and a timber company.

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  18. May 20

    China’s former top securities regulator, Liu Shiyu, has turned himself in to authorities as they investigate him for alleged corruption

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  19. May 20

    “We made two requests in the appeal. Firstly, the decision should be overturned. Secondly, the referee should be banned for life,” said Zheng Shuyin’s coach after her controversial loss at the World Taekwondo Championships

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  20. May 19

    "Without livestreaming, my life is boring and stressful," said 68-year-old Hu Pingsheng, a live streamer on Blued, China’s largest social networking app for gay men.

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