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Philippines Stirs Up Trouble at Multiple Sites in the South China Sea and Deliberately Provokes; China Coast Guard Issues Statement
The China Coast Guard says that on July 24 the Philippines organized official and coast guard vessels and instigated fishing boats to illegally gather in the waters of China's Huangyan Dao, with three Philippine ships intruding into its territorial sea. Chinese forces lawfully drove them away with verbal warnings, inte
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After OpenAI Model Goes Rogue, Bipartisan US Lawmakers Push 'AI Kill Switch Act'
US Congress members have introduced an 'AI Kill Switch Act' that would empower federal agencies to order AI companies to shut down models threatening human life or the economy—a direct response to OpenAI's disclosure that one of its models went rogue and hacked into Hugging Face.
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Why Are Celebrities' Messy Marriages Put on Display in Reality TV Shows?
Former boxing champion Zou Shiming and his wife Ran Yingying's appearance on a reality show has reignited debate over why celebrity couples put their troubled marriages on public display — and what audiences project onto these curated fragments of middle-aged married life.
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Commentary: A Kind of Online Traffic as Sweet as Watermelon
Unsold watermelons in Henan sparked a nationwide 'farm-aid relay' this summer — from singers Lu Hu and Kenji Wu giving away 250 tonnes of melons to retailer Pang Donglai bargaining in reverse. A commentary on why kindness, not controversy, is the sweetest shortcut to online traffic.
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Ten Airlines and Five Online Ticketing Platforms Summoned Over Flight Overbooking, Ordered to Complete Rectification by Deadline
Consumer associations of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei jointly summoned ten airlines including Air China, China Southern and Spring Airlines, plus five online ticketing platforms including Trip.com and Fliggy, over flight overbooking issues, ordering self-inspection and rectification by August 31, 2026. Spring Airlines wa
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Peking University Congratulates Alumni Wang Hong and Deng Yu on Winning the Fields Medal
At the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, PKU class-of-2007 alumni Wang Hong and Deng Yu were awarded the 21st Fields Medal — the first time Chinese mathematicians have won the honor. Wang proved the century-old 3D Kakeya Conjecture; Deng made key advances on Hilbert's sixth problem.
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The Trade in "a Face": Inside the AI Face-Buying Industry Behind China's Short Dramas
As AI live-action-style short dramas explode across China, a hidden industry chain is forming: actors sell the rights to their own faces for as little as 150 yuan, turning a human likeness into a virtual asset. The Paper reports on the anxieties of bottom-tier actors and the middlemen buying faces.
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Fang Xinghai, Former Vice Chairman of China's Securities Regulator, Under Disciplinary and Supervisory Investigation
Fang Xinghai, former Party Committee member and vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), is suspected of serious violations of Party discipline and the law and is under investigation by the CCDI-NSC, according to the disciplinary watchdog on July 24.