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Fran Lu
Fran Lu
Beijing
Reporter, Culture
Fran has been a reporter since 2014, mainly covering social and cultural stories about China. She writes about lifestyle, social trends and youth culture.

Chinese folklore contends that having a twitch in your eye, depending on which peeper is flickering and when, is a signal of whether a person is in for some good or bad fortune.

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A 17-year-old market stall worker from Thailand has become an online sensation thanks to her uncanny resemblance to Lisa, the rapper and dancer from South Korean girl band, Blackpink.

A little girl in China whose father works about 2,000km from the family home talks to him so often via camera that she thinks he actually lives inside the device.

One of China’s biggest food and drink companies has come under fire for putting its management trainees through a tough physical training regime at an army base.

Passengers at an airport in China were incensed when an employee of an initially unidentified well-known actress and singer ordered them to get out of a lift, then internet sleuths went to work.

A court in China has called a husband petty for listing every single item he thinks his wife should have paid half for during their long relationship, just because they signed a “going Dutch” agreement two decades ago.

Parents in China who are eager to see what their offspring will look like before they are born have turned to affordable artificial intelligence services to help them find out.

The story of a lost boy in China who was adopted aged 4 by a Dutch couple and has finally found his birth parents after a 12-year search has moved many people on mainland social media.

A 56-year-old researcher in neuro-philosophy from China has been practising what he teaches following his terminal cancer diagnosis with an approach that has stunned and impressed students.

A man in China broke into a Shanghai company and left a note recommending that the business improve its security system, amusing the mainland social media.

The story of an employee at a well-known café chain in China who screamed at a customer in frustration and doused them with coffee granules has sparked a debate about workers’ rights.

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A middle-aged woman in China tried to embarrass her young student lover, who she claimed swindled her, by turning up at his college and removing her clothes in public.

An influencer in China, who is much admired for her sense of style, was furious when she learned an exclusive outfit she had paid a hefty deposit for had been given to an actress to wear to a high-profile event.

New technology is being used to create a product that will disguise irate customers’ tone of voice so that the psychological effect on staff dealing with them is reduced.

A loving Chinese mother was so committed to helping her paralysed son walk again that she devised a strict routine of care and rehabilitation for him that involved carrying the burden on her own back – literally.

To say that legendary Chinese mathematics genius Liu Zhiyu, 35, has led a full life is a vast understatement. The Post charts his incredible achievements.

China’s jobless are feeling so ashamed about their status that they are hiding it from family and friends by walking the streets or sitting in cafes during working hours.

A distraught boy in China, who is grieving for his dead mother, constantly video-calls his aunt to look at her because of the strong family resemblance.

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Jin, the oldest member of K-pop boy band BTS, has marked the end of his compulsory stint in the South Korean military by giving a free individual hug to 1,000 fans in the nation’s capital, Seoul.