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Nine former senior officers got booted from the National People’s Congress last year for suspected ‘serious violations of discipline and law,’ a euphemism used by the country’s graft-busters for corruption

Sea of Stars' developer wants to maintain "a positive and optimistic space"

The one constant the internet offers us is a continual rotation of trends. Months ago, the trend was people exhibiting “main character energy”. People were imagining themselves as main characters in their own life show: they were the ones who knew everyone’s name in the coffee shop, they were having…

But be warned: NPC definitely isn't a compliment

Dong Yunhu, placed under investigation last month, is the first representative to be publicly removed from the 14th National People’s Congress, whose members were confirmed in February

“Yes, yes… mmm, mmm ice cream so good,” coos a platinum-haired woman known on TikTok as Pinkydoll. Holding a hair straightener, she plays with popcorn kernels and audibly pops her lips. Your screen brightens with emojis of food, roses and stars purchased by her audience. What are we watching? Why?

People online pretend to be jerky video-game characters – and some make tons of money doing it. What on earth?

There are anarchic, erotic undertones to ‘NPC streaming’, the trend in which ordinary people play video-game characters

Unite union and the National Pensioners Convention will join forces to demand the Tories rule out 'an attack on the state pension' after the Tories pushed back a decision to after the election