Tech Giants Roll Out Broad Pay Raises — What Signals Is the Market Sending?
Major companies in China have suddenly started raising pay—together, and almost in sequence. First c...
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At 200 RMB per pill, a homegrown “flu wonder drug” is struggling to gain traction
A 100–300 RMB “flu miracle drug” is no longer synonymous with baloxavir marboxil (Xofluza). In 2025,...
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AI Is Dramatically Lowering the Bar for Everyday Fake-Making
Illegal or not—sometimes it’s separated by just a single prompt. For a long time, most people assume...
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Your Salary Is Quietly “Filtering” Your Friend Circle
Today is Friday. Right now, are you splitting a lunch order with coworkers while swapping office gos...
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When Graves Cost More Than Homes: Chinese Buyers Are Starting to Say “No”
In the public imagination, the funeral and burial business used to be the ultimate “recession-proof”...
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The “Eastern Miracle Drink” Hailed by White Influencers—So Hard to Swallow It Makes You Question Everything
Any seasoning turned into a beverage is probably destined to taste strange—but turmeric powder manag...
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Taylor Swift Doesn’t Understand Human Resources — or So the Debate Goes
Recently, I came across a piece of news: CATL announced a pay raise for frontline employees—mainly r...
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With Student Demand Slowing, M&G Stationery and Its Peers Turn Their Focus to MINISO and Pop Mart
By BaimianEdited by Yuanzhang Twenty years ago, you could find a familiar kind of shop outside almos...
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Asia-Pacific Stocks Slide Across the Board, Gold Jewelry Prices Snap a Five-Day Winning Streak, and the Yuan Keeps Climbing
On December 16, major Asia-Pacific equity markets extended their pullback. Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed...
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After Massive Store Closures, 85°C Sets Its Sights on a Promising New Growth Track
After reports of large-scale store closures, 85°C (85 Degrees C) is wasting no time charting its nex...
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Even TikTok Once Fought Hard for Every 10,000 New Users
Our teammate Piaf worked at ByteDance back in 2017, when Douyin was only beginning to take shape and...
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Ride-Hailing Is a Service Industry—So Why Does It Act Like It’s in Charge of Everyone?
Which other industry would dare speak to its customers this way? Somewhere along the line, hailing a...
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