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Topic 1-Nude¹ pictures as IOU for online loan

 

According to media reports, female university students have undertook risky² loans via P2P platforms whereby they are required to submit nude photographs of themselves as collateral³ to loan sharks. If payment doesn't occur on time, the threat is borrowers' nude images will be made public.

 

Topic 2-Water bottles put missing kids' photos in public's hands

 

A bottled water company in Qingdao, eastern China's Shandong province has plastered pictures of missing children on its packaging in the hope of finding them. The good deed has aroused controversy⁴, as the water is more expensive than other similar products in the marketplace.

 

What needs to be done to bring the missing children home?

 

Topic 3-Eating in Space-Over 100 meal choices for Chinese astronauts

 

One hundred types of food. Seven dishes in breakfast and eight each in lunch and dinner. Is it a king's feast? No. A five-star hotel's spread? Wrong again. Here's a hint: It's literally⁵ out of this world.

 

China has sent two astronauts into space on a mission to dock with space lab Tiangong2 and remain aboard for 30 days.

 

Let's check out when astronauts are not busy conducting experiments, what are they eating in space?   

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