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Topic1-Is Extending Maternity¹ Leave Beneficial to Females

 

According to the latest regulation on Population and Family Planning in Guangdong Province, female employees are entitled to an extra 50 days of maternity leave, making it 178 days in total. Why is a policy that is aimed at promoting mothers' welfare creating so much mixed response?

 

Topic2-The Chatbot That Lets You Talk to the Dead

 

When someone dear to us passes away, we feel the grief. People find different ways to cope – therapy, religion, revisiting happy memories– even though never again will we be able to have verbal exchange with the deceased.

 

But what if that could be changed? One software developer lost a friend in an accident; she created a chatbot, using his old texts, so that she could talk to him again.

 

Topic3-Construction Workers Sit on Floor over Fear of Staining Subway Seats

 

After a day of exhausting work, several construction workers in Shenyang, capital of Northwest China's Liaoning province, chose to sit on the floor of the subway rather than vacant seats. This scene has gone viral on the internet. 

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