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Every Tuesday and Thursday, China Trends takes the pulse of the Chinese social media to keep you in the loop of what the world’s biggest internet population is talking about.

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Chinese woman dates 20 men, asks for iPhones, sells them to help fund flat purchase

30 Jul 2025 - 2:00PM

A woman in China dated 20 men simultaneously, asking each for an iPhone before selling the gadgets to make a down payment on a flat. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock

Military

China’s J-20 flew through the Tsushima Strait. Did anybody else notice?

29 Jul 2025 - 6:19PMvideocam

The PLA is projected to have around 400 J-20s in operation by the end of this year. Photo: Handout

Trending in China

China pancake seller in US on US$20,000 a month arrested amid turf war

29 Jul 2025 - 3:44PM

A Chinese man who sells savoury pancakes in the United States has been arrested for operating without a business licence amid a turf dispute with a rival vendor. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin

Society

Hong Kong actor Will Or diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, drops out of play

30 Jul 2025 - 4:53PM

The actor has said he was diagnosed in May. Photo: Facebook/Will Or

Science

US Earth imaging satellite fleet is creating ‘low-cost orbital landmines’: China

30 Jul 2025 - 8:00PMvideocam

A team of Chinese researchers is calling on regulators to act as low Earth orbit becomes more crowded with in-use and defunct satellites. Illustration: Shutterstock

Trending in China: Armless farmer fights poverty and disability

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24 Jun 2022 - 7:31AM

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17 Jun 2022 - 8:00AM

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10 Jun 2022 - 9:00PM

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3 Jun 2022 - 11:30AM

Trending in China: Doctor slips and falls, but works through pain

Video | Trending in China

30 May 2022 - 7:31AM

US-China relations

Opinion | There was a time when China and the US were both liberal

The usual assumption is that liberal ideals are uniquely Western, but Enlightenment writers borrowed freely from Asian sources; many liberal ideals can be found in The Morals of Confucius.

28 Apr 2022 - 9:06AM

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Chinese internet culture

Monkey drags away toddler, US$10,800 tossed, woman tears apart basketball court

In this week’s Quirky China, a monkey tries to steal a toddler, a cleaner finds four years of salary in a bag, and a woman destroys a basketball court.

23 Apr 2022 - 9:12AM

A woman tore apart a basketball court because she thought the players were too loud. Photo: Baidu

Suggestive online content

As I see it | Don’t ban pro-China propaganda but allow anti-Asian hate to fester

Twitter was fast to suspend alleged state-sponsored accounts spreading pro-China views during the Winter Olympics. But a video proven to be fabricated is still up, fuelling hateful comments against Asians.

25 Feb 2022 - 9:00AM

Chinese food trends

Changing tastes of China’s middle class drive demand for fine meat

China’s growing middle class and greater consumer awareness about the origins of food have driven up demand for higher quality meat, such as imported Iberian and Serrano ham.

28 Jan 2022 - 1:13PMvideocam

Trending in China

Woman ‘borrows police’ to see if husband cheating, a migrant-worker philosophy genius, students save the day

This week’s quirky stories from China feature a woman trying to “borrow” the local police to catch her husband cheating, except he wasn’t.

27 Nov 2021 - 9:00AMvideocam

A man was interupted by the police in his hotel, and a migrant worker goes viral for his philosophy studies in this week’s quirky stories from China. Photo: Handout

Uniqlo parent reports better-than-expected profit, to boost online sales

Fast Retailing, which owns Japanese brand Uniqlo, will seek to boost online sales after they helped it report a better-than-expected first-half profit.

9 Apr 2021 - 9:30AM

A Uniqlo shop in Tokyo. The company’s overall first-half profit improvement was led by its home market, Japan, where it recorded 36.6 per cent operating profit and 6.2 per cent revenue growth. Photo: AFP

Married woman visits doctor for hurt ankle only to find out she was born male

A 25-year-old woman in eastern China, who failed to fall pregnant after 12 months of trying, was shocked to discover she is actually intersex.

13 Jul 2022 - 11:28PMvideocam

Coronavirus pandemic

‘Can I walk in the street if I don’t wash my face?’ Outrage over ‘dirty car’ ban

A city in southwestern China has declared war on vehicles with dust or mud on them in a bid to clean up its image.

11 Mar 2021 - 8:04PM

‘Wear a mask. Save lives’: Google honours Chinese face-covering pioneer

Google Doodle has featured the Chinese-Malaysian epidemiologist Dr Wu Lien-teh, whose surgical face-covering is widely believed to be the predecessor of the N95 mask.

11 Mar 2021 - 4:22PM

Farmer in China selling 46 US cents noodles becomes internet celebrity

Ramen Brother’s cheap 46 US cents bowl of noodles prompts unexpected success.

11 Mar 2021 - 12:36PM

Cheng Yunfu – nicknamed Ramen Brother by online fans, at a rural market in Feixian county in China’s eastern Shandong province. Photo: Handout

State media praised for return of Japanese anime, others unhappy violence edited

A Japanese cartoon series about human cells as heroes and villains has been allowed on China’s state-controlled television after a decade-long ban

8 Mar 2021 - 12:37PM

Video | Trending in China: ‘Don’t travel if you’re poor’: saleswoman humiliates tourists

16 Oct 2020 - 8:41AM

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