This scene featuring a room inspection team at a vocational college could be straight from a Tarantino movie - but these girls from Heilongjiang apparently just really like to go about their duties in gang-style. The video has become a viral hit on Chinese social media.
And this incident, of course, led to some creative illustrations mocking the room inspection squad. Like this one.
Or this one.
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The videos shared on Chinese social media about the floodings in Henan following the heavy rain really show the severity of the situation. These are some of them.
Subway passengers trapped in the water.
Several cities including Zhengzhou were hit by downpours, leading to extreme scenes.
The hashtag "Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine Proven to Be Successful" (#中国新冠疫苗已被证明有效#) attracted 460 million clicks on Weibo this week, the news was hosted by the National Business Daily (每日经济新闻) quoting WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan. But here's the problem:
The quote by Dr. Swaminathan used in this news is the following ("some of their [vaccine] candidates have proven to be successful in clinical trials"), that was published by CGTN in the video below.
But the video published by CGTN was taken from this WHO media briefing where Dr. Swaminathan actually makes a statement on "IF some of their candidates prove to be successful." The context of the video is different than as presented (and edited) in the clip published by CGTN.
Due to anti-virus measures, some Chinese universities have a 'closed campus', making it hard for students to leave the campus to go out. What to do on a boring night in the dorm? How about turning it into a catwalk! This guy nails it.
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