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Payments with the wave of a hand: Tencent launches palm scans for WeChat Pay

WeChat users who register their palm prints can pay for rides on Beijing’s airport express line using only their hands at designated turnstiles.

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Chinese county sparks storm by telling ‘leftover’ women: marry jobless men

Yihuang county in Jiangxi province is offering women a host of sweeteners to encourage them to marry, the latest effort by a local government to address China’s declining birth rate.

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‘Don’t want a father’: girls disappointed by dad’s surprise instead of gifts

A dad in China who hid in his car boot to surprise his daughters, thinking they would be happier with him than toys as a gift, found out how wrong this was in a viral video.

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Man in China dies after drinking 4 bottles of liquor in live-stream contest

The death of a social media influencer found face down at the desk where he took part in an extreme online drinking game just hours earlier has raised fears about China’s competitive live-streaming cu

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China's ChatGPT Black Market Is Thriving

A booming illicit market for OpenAI's chatbot shows the huge potential, and risks, for Chinese generative AI.

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Sleep next to toilet with ‘subtle’ smell, cheap hotel rooms in China go viral

Chinese social media users shocked by the existence of cheap micro hotel rooms with a toilet next to the bed in a provincial capital are fiercely debating the merits and value of these small rooms.

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‘So scary!’: 7 million in China watch game-hooked son threaten father with chopper

A viral video of a primary school pupil brandishing a meat cleaver at his father because his dad would not let him play video games on his mobile phone has shocked millions on Chinese social media.