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A Chinese man who vanished for 16 years after failing out of college and feeling too ashamed to face his parents has been reunited with them
The unnamed man, surnamed Wang, disappeared in 2005 after he failed out of a top university in Chin…
Cheryl Teh
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Video shows woman in China keeping in her son locked in a tiny cage so she can watch over him while she works
The mother said she operates a pushcart to sell desserts and had no choice but to lock her son insi…
Cheryl Teh
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ChatGPT and GPT-4 skew the most liberal and Meta's LLaMA is the most conservative AI model, a new study says
AI models have long been criticized for biases. New research shows how AIs from OpenAI, Meta, and G…
Kylie Kirschner
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Chinese employees are being urged to live at their workplaces as the country pursues a zero-COVID policy, reports say
In the battle against rising COVID-19 cases, workers are ordered to avoid unnecessary trips and in …
Sam Tabahriti
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A Chinese woman stuck in a 14-day quarantine watched helplessly via a surveillance camera as her dog demolished her living room and wardrobe
The woman's story generated widespread discussion in China of how pets should be dealt with when th…
Matthew Loh
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China's Covid flare-ups and lockdowns are disrupting port and chip factory operations, hitting the supply chain — again
Partial lockdowns have hit the Port of Ningbo, as well as Samsung and Micron's chip factories in Xi…
Huileng Tan
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China is swinging into panic mode ahead of the Winter Olympics, locking down a city of 200,000 people over one COVID-19 case
China's COVID-zero approach has led it to impose harsh travel curbs, including a swift lockdown on …
Cheryl Teh
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A play in China is facing criticism after a pack of 30 wolves chased actors off stage
30 live wolves chased a group of Chinese actors during a performance of "Tuoling Legend" last week,…
Canela López
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Taiwan's military warns it will counterattack without exception if Chinese forces enter its waters or airspace as Beijing's ships and planes move nearby
The remarks from a Taiwanese military official come one day after Taiwan fired warning shots at a C…
Insider Inc.
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A Chinese city is getting roasted online for demanding that fishermen bring fish and crabs in for COVID-19 swabs
Videos show the fishermen presenting their catch for a "human and goods" swab test at Jimei distric…
Matthew Loh
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Airlines keep slashing flights due to staff sickness caused by COVID-19. More than 2,200 flights have already been canceled for Wednesday.
Around 15,000 flights have been canceled since Friday morning, according to FlightAware data. US ai…
Grace Dean
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China locks down a city of 1 million people over 3 cases of COVID-19
The lockdown comes just a month before the Beijing Olympics — and as over 1 million new cases were …
Jake Epstein
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China punished more than 600,000 officials in 2021 amid Xi Jinping's clampdown on corruption and misconduct
Last week, the Communist Party's top disciplinary agency vowed to show "no mercy" to those who "try…
Cheryl Teh
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I learned how to cook with my ex-boyfriend. It took me a while to get back in the kitchen after our breakup.
The author says she didn't want to cook for a while after the breakup. But she realized cooking is …
Sophie Steinberg
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Prepare for the 'mother of all supply chain stumbles' if Omicron sweeps across Asia and raises the risk of factory shutdowns, analyst warns
"Asian production networks, hitherto impressively resilient, may be thrown into a funk as Omicron g…
Mary Hanbury
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CNN correspondent in Shanghai said authorities taped up his door to ensure he abided by the city's Covid lockdown regulations
"If you thought Wuhan 2020 was bad, welcome to Shanghai 2022," said CNN's David Culver, who's livin…
Matthew Loh
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2 weeks out from the Olympics, Beijing has locked down an office building with workers still inside and intensified restrictions after one Omicron case was detected
While the Chinese capital hasn't gone into full lockdown, all inbound travelers will be required to…
Cheryl Teh
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A Dutch influencer says that a Chinese TV show used a photo of her and her boyfriend, but replaced her face with the show's star
An influencer went viral on TikTok showing how a Chinese drama used an image of her and her boyfrie…
Kieran Press-Reynolds
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Samsung logs record sales, 4-year-high operating profit in Q4
Net profit rose 64.04 per cent from a year earlier to 10.8 trillion won ($9 billion) in the Octo…
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2 weeks out from the Olympics, China is back to using anal COVID-19 swab tests on some Beijing residents to try to detect Omicron cases
27 people were given anal COVID-19 swabs in Beijing this week in a procedure that involves insertin…