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China boy aids in home birth, paramedics give phone help as mum’s waters break
Youngster remains calm as mother goes into labour, online observers praise boy but ask why he was left alone with her at such a time.
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Shock as Malaysia teacher tells pupil struggling with dialect to ‘go back to China’
28 Mar 2025 - 6:00PM
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China ‘Ne Zha’ boy secretly takes boat to fish, amazes by surviving 24 hours adrift
28 Mar 2025 - 2:00PM
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China schoolboy slapped 9 times for disrespect after addressing teacher by name
Violent teacher suspended from position amid police investigation as parents reject US$700 compensation from school.
28 Mar 2025 - 10:00AM
A primary schoolboy in China was slapped in the face nine times for “disrespecting” a teacher, sparking a fierce deabte on social media. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock
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‘Shameful’: China woman buys flat for old professor she cares for, sparks dispute
Woman says residence represents not merely bricks and mortar, but four decades of cherished memories.
27 Mar 2025 - 7:51PM
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Chinese eatery sells spicy bamboo sticks for US$1.4, favoured by women diners
Following the introduction of this dish, sales skyrocketed, averaging over 100 servings per day and 30 per cent rise in customer visits.
27 Mar 2025 - 2:06PM
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Chinese woman’s ‘immense’ pain, ‘muscle grandma’: 5 trending stories
From a student chasing down a phone thief in Italy to robots for rent in China, after here are five stories from SCMP’s recent reporting.
27 Mar 2025 - 12:34PM
A woman in China who suffered “immense” pain after a botched tooth extraction has died after plunging from a hospital roof. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
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China woman swaps locks on 80 flats, sells them for US$3.3 million to con friends
While husband lives frugally to pay off debt, wife lavishly gifts live-streamer lover with extravagant items and properties.
27 Mar 2025 - 9:58AM
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China Porsche owner skips out on US$70 petrol bill, leaves station worker to pay
Driver of US$75,000 luxury car gets station worker to fill up tank then speeds off without paying, police track him down using surveillance footage.
26 Mar 2025 - 3:07PM
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Chinese boy’s daily ritual of caring for sister with partly amputated leg lauded
Their mum suggests that the boy may have overheard family discussions about his sister’s leg challenges, feels obliged to help her.
26 Mar 2025 - 9:00AM
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Woman in China drinks ‘waste water’ for 5 years, pipe blunder causes liver damage
Victim of water purifier installation mistake seeks proper compensation after she suffers from irregular periods following pipes mistake.
27 Mar 2025 - 2:00PM
A woman in China has been drinking “wastewater” for five years after a plumbing error, causing her to suffer from liver damage. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/Xiaomi
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Chinese youth pay US$28 to live K-pop dream with public events, photo shoots
‘Obsessed’ fans of Korean entertainment genre snapped by photographers, are done up by make-up artists in immersive experience.
25 Mar 2025 - 4:18PM
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China US$332,000 breast implants with cattle DNA leave woman severely disabled
Investigations into fellow cosmetic surgery patients at clinic find their implants included traces of DNA from camels, bats and gorillas.
28 Mar 2025 - 11:09AM
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Outrage as boy urinates in glass at China eatery, mum says ‘he could not hold it’
Stunned diners look on as toddler stands up on high chair, takes off his trousers to pee in glass right next to restaurant staff’s counter.
24 Mar 2025 - 6:00PM
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Tearful Wu Yanni’s 60m hurdles Worlds failure sparks furious social media debate
Despite setting a new national record time of 8.01 seconds, the 27-year-old missed out on qualification by 0.01 seconds.
24 Mar 2025 - 3:30PM
China’s Wu Yanni of China celebrates after breaking the national record during the women’s 60 metres hurdles semi-finals at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships. Photo: Xinhua
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Chinese woman dies in hospital plunge after tooth blunder causes ‘immense’ pain
Doctors remove wrong tooth then stuff rogue denture back in place using wire, leading ‘healthy’ woman’s face to swell up.
26 Mar 2025 - 11:51AM
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China eatery sells half chicken ‘raised on music, milk’ for US$66, triggers taunts
Eatery says succulent ‘sunflower chicken’ which is popular with Michelin-starred chefs is made from birds raised ‘listening to classical music’.
24 Mar 2025 - 9:00AM
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Young Chinese man embarks on 3,300-km Lhasa trek, emerges looking like 50-year-old
Hiker endures blizzards, wild wolves, accidents which left him hobbling in epic journey over mountain ranges during which he hardly bathed.
23 Mar 2025 - 2:00PM
A young man who hiked 3,300 kilometres across China has emerged looking much, much older. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
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‘Wife hunt’ of Chinese professor with ‘slim, pretty’ criteria probed by police
Top university says dating description of academic as being tall, sporting and wealthy contains untruths, declines to elaborate.
23 Mar 2025 - 12:26PM
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China’s hottest new show is a Sichuan-dialect micro drama set in the 1980s
My Sweet Home has achieved phenomenal success by moving beyond the trashy tropes of China’s booming micro drama industry.
22 Mar 2025 - 4:33PM
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Angry at poor service, China resident pays US$20 management fee with 6,000 coins
Property management staff take 3 hours to count mountain of coins after angry woman threatens to call police, experts say her actions ‘legal’.
22 Mar 2025 - 2:00PM
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‘Never mess with a Chinese woman’: student chases Italy phone thief, goes viral
With help of police and passers-by, China student trio snare subway phone thief, sending powerful anti-crime message to would-be lawbreakers.
22 Mar 2025 - 9:03AM
A female student who chased a phone thief in Italy and retrieved her stolen property has been widely praised on mainland social media. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/Douyin
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Xiaomi CEO drops watermelons, reveals juicy truth about firm’s bulletproof veneer
Company website asserts that coating offers tear, scratch, and puncture resistance that exceeds traditional PVC coatings by over tenfold.
21 Mar 2025 - 6:00PM
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Shock as China building workers hung on gate by harnesses as safety training
‘Punishment’ for safety lapses praised by some while others reject it as akin to humiliating public shaming methods meted out in ancient China.
21 Mar 2025 - 2:00PM
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China influencer rents robot for US$1,400 a day to do housework, go on date
Agile humanoid cooks, cleans, helps with shopping, even does martial arts moves, but struggles to hold it together while dancing.
21 Mar 2025 - 10:55AM
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