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August 2020

#75: 用一生学过的英文单字求助美国名医 台湾妈妈只为救回女儿一命
A Taiwanese mother's arduous journey to save her 4-year old daughter diagnosed with a rare cancerous tumor.
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#74: 中国式垃圾革命
To encourage recycling, a village in Zhejiang is deploying a variety of methods – including the high-tech tools of the modern surveillance state. Let’s…
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#73: 留学市场受到冲击
Hit by the double whammy of the pandemic and rising tensions between China and the West, the number of Chinese students studying abroad is falling…
#72: 蛋炒饭之争
Would you wash cooked rice under running water? A YouTube comedian had a field day criticizing a BBC video demonstrating how to cook fried rice.
#71: 只卖一本书的书店
A newspaper columnist visits a tiny bookstore in Tokyo that prides itself on only selling a single book at any given time.
#70: 厨房里的人类学家
The US closed its Chengdu consulate recently, but did you know that the consul-general's wife happens to be a well-known food writer and a huge fan of…
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#69: 来自中国的神秘包裹
Packages containing mystery seeds, purportedly sent from China, are spreading around the world.

July 2020

#68: 滑冰运动员揭露自己曾遭体罚
A figure skater's revelation that she had been subject to physical abuse since the age of 11 shines a spotlight on the ugly culture of abuse in sports.
#67: 被主人卖的老骆驼 独行100公里回家
A camel in Inner Mongolia embarks on a 100km trek in search of its former owner.
#66: 绿巨人浩克的家
Does this plant-covered building in Taiwan look like it could be the Incredible Hulk's home? People are visiting to take Instagram photos, but locals…
#65: “我已准备好坐牢”
Jimmy Lai owns one of the very few remaining newspapers in Hong Kong that dares to openly criticize the Chinese government, but now he's in danger of…
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