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A five-month-old baby who can stand steadily on his grandfather's hand without any support has become a source of controversy on mainland Chinese social media, where it has been viewed more than 34 million times on Weibo alone. The viral video filmed by the baby's mother shows the boy smiling as he stands on one of his grandfather's hands and.
A video of a boy in China proudly showing off his kindergarten graduation certificate to his mother has delighted Chinese internet users. Last week, the boy, from Chaozhou, Guangdong province in southern China, and his kindergarten classmates, all dressed in miniature ceremonial gowns, received graduation certificates, the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald reported. When the boy noticed his mother filming him, the.
A Chinese court has ordered the girlfriend of a married man return 3.79 million yuan (S$776,000) he gave her over 14 years to his legal wife, because the affair is “against public customs”. The case has garnered significant attention in China where it is rare for a woman to reclaim assets given to other partners due to a lack of.