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2023-04-04 08:52:35chinadaily.com.cn Editor : Li Yan
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A Chinese health brand declared on Monday that it has terminated its cooperation with brand ambassador Zhang Jike after the table tennis superstar was allegedly involved in a scandal.
Nuotelande, a company that mainly sells nutrition products such as protein powder and vitamins, posted a statement on Monday afternoon via its account on Sina Weibo, Chinese Twitter-like platform, saying "we've terminated all partnership agreements with Zhang."
Zhang, a multiple-time world champion, has been recently embroiled in controversy as some netizens claimed he owed several million yuan in debt due to gambling, and that he sent private videos of his ex-girlfriend, a Chinese actress, to the debtor, who then allegedly used the videos to extort the woman.
On Thursday, Zhang's studio responded via Sina Weibo that he does not have any debt problems, nor had he compromised anyone's privacy, adding that the allegations were pure fabrication.
On Friday, Zhang's attorney posted a statement saying that they have started collecting evidence on people that are trying to harm his reputation and that they are preparing to sue those who posted rumors about him multiple times or who refused to delete such information after they were told to.
Despite the responses, the allegations remained a hot topic after journalist Li Weiao said on his Weibo account on Friday that he had learned the rumors were true.
Li wrote that Zhang provided private videos of someone to a third party and that Zhang had more than 5 million yuan ($728,000) in debts that he has not yet paid. Li also disclosed a photo of a loan contract for 5 million yuan with Zhang listed as the borrower.
As of press time, the incident was still being heatedly discussed on the Chinese social platform, and information involving Zhang rocketed to the top of Weibo's trending list.
By 6 pm on Monday, for example, a topic with a hashtag of Zhang Jike's name on Weibo had been viewed over 18.5 billion times, while another topic tagged "Zhang Jike's loan contract" had been read more than 1.7 billion times.
The case has also prompted a few other popular brands that previously worked with Zhang to take action.
For instance, Anta Sports, a leading sportswear brand, told Economic View, a mobile application operated by the China News Service, on Monday that it has terminated its partnership with Zhang.
Content related to Zhang was not found when China Daily typed the athlete's name on Monday on the official Weibo accounts of a number of brands, including Anta Sports and Safeguard, a brand of antibacterial hand sanitizer under Procter &Gamble, a consumer goods multinational company.
Born in Qingdao, Shandong province, the 35-year-old Zhang is among the most notable players in table tennis history and has nearly 12.5 million followers on Weibo.
He is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, has been crowned world champion seven times and is a six-time ITTF World Cup singles and doubles champion.
The dude is a disgusting pig of a man if the allegations made against him are true. Using your girlfriend's intimate pictures and sexually explicit videos as your collateral to accrue debts/money to be used as an additional support for his pig lifestyle? And when confronted with his unpaid debts the man was dumb enought to call the debt collector's bluff and now his exposed for the world to see: a duplicitous scumbag where morals, ethics, are thrown out the window so he can satisfy all of his AYN RANDIAN desires that SELFISHNESS IS A VIRTUE.
 

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Did the eggs hatch?
No idea, too early to tell? Let's wait for more reports.

It's very important to remember the history of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.

Distributing aid in Afghanistan:

Rescuing stray cats:

It's Qingming Festival...
 

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2023-04-11 10:13:05Ecns.cn Editor : Zhang Dongfang
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(ECNS) -- Chinese singer Jay Chou launched a lawsuit against NetEase for rights infringement, which has sparked debate on Sina Weibo, a Chinese social platform, on Monday.
According to Tianyancha, a commercial query platform providing information of entities, the case was launched by Chou and his music production company JVR Music and will be heard in a court in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, on April 17.
The dispute between Jay Chou and NetEase can date back to last July when a promotional event was held for Tianxia 3, a multiplayer online game developed by NetEase. It said that a total of 100 sets of Chou’s digital albums would be offered for free as part of the promotion.
Then the JVR Music issued a statement, saying it had not given permission for use of Chou’s music nor its concert tickets, adding that NetEase’s activities had not been officially authorized by JVR Music.
This is not the first friction between JVR Music and NetEase. In 2018, Tencent Music released a statement accusing NetEase Cloud Music of infringement for the latter continued to provide users with Chou’s music after the copyright sublicense expired on March 31, 2018.
After the exclusive copyright of music was lifted in 2021, Netease still failed to get the copyright of Chou’s music, and JVR Music chose to renew its contract with Tencent Music.
The friction between Chou and NetEase in copyright and intellectual property rights is still unresolved.
 

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2023-04-25 15:36:16Ecns.cn Editor : Zhao Li
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(ECNS) -- Changshu City in east China's Jiangsu Province will start paying salaries of all civil servants and state-owned units in digital RMB from May, Shanghai Securities News reported on Saturday, citing the local financial supervisory authority and financial bureau.
Such attempts have already been made in multiple cities since last year.
According to the public WeChat account "Taicang Finance", all employees in 59 municipal-level departments, eight district and town administrative institutions, and state-owned enterprises in Taicang City of Jiangsu Province have been paid in digital RMB since July 2022.
Domestic media reports that in March 2022, 64 high-level talents in key industries in Xiangcheng District of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province received talent subsidies totaling 235,000 yuan ($33980.65) paid in digital RMB. In June of the same year, the employees in Taihu New Town of Wujiang District received their first digital RMB salary of 200 yuan.
Besides, in February 2023, the Shandong Branch of China's Bank of Communications launched the first digital RMB salary payment service for a municipal-level state-owned enterprise in Jinan City.
In August 2022, Ningbo City of Zhejiang Province paid the first batch of digital RMB salaries for administrative institutions, with 557 employees from five administrative institutions, including the Cixi City Financial Bureau and the Financial Development Service Center, receiving partial salaries for July in digital RMB.
Dong Ximiao, chief researcher at Merchants Union Consumer Finance Co, told China News Network that distributing salaries to public servants in digital RMB will help transform public perceptions, cultivate usage habits, and promote the application of digital RMB. In the future, there may be more places using digital RMB to distribute salaries.
 

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First Chinese world chess champion crowned​

Chinese grandmaster Ding Liren prevailed over Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi on Sunday in a tiebreak to win what has been hailed as perhaps the most exciting world chess championship match in a generation.

With the score deadlocked at a 7-7 tie after 14 grueling classical games – the final of which on Saturday clocked in at six and a half hours – the action shifted to a series of four shorter games to break the tie. Had a winner still not emerged, a series of two ‘blitz’ games would have ensued.

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Can anyone explain here why are some Chinese have decided to trek to the U.S. via Mexico and other Latin American countries? Some of them as seen on this Tiktok video via Reuters news brought their babies. What's going on here?

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