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Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister said on Wednesday that an allegation the kingdom’s crown prince had been involved in a plot to hack the phone of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was “absurd”. But in a statement released on Wednesday, the independent UN experts says that there is enough evidence suggesting that Saudi Arabia had hacked Bezos’ phone and both the kingdom and the United States should investigate.

Chinese Weibo user Lu Xiaobao posted photos of herself, a friend and her SUV car in the empty Forbidden City in Beijing last Friday quickly sparked outrage online. Although she quickly deleted them, they went viral and people urged the site to offer an explanation. Soon the Palace Museum issued an apology admitting that the incident had happened on Monday, a day it normally closes to allow for maintenance and renovation work. In today’s Buzz, we looked into who the lady is, how did this happen, and why it is controversial.

A new report shows that young people born in years after 2000 in Shanghai want to be "ordinary".

A severely malnourished college student has died in southwestern China.

The Shanghai city government has announced to terminate its sister-city relationship with the city of Prague and to suspend all official exchanges.

The decision was made given the fact that "the political prerequisite and basis for the exchanges between the two cities no longer exist," according to a statement.

The statement said, quote, "The administration of the city of Prague of the Czech Republic has repeatedly made wrongful moves on Taiwan question and other issues that bear on the core interests of China, which has constituted a blatant interference in China's internal affairs and a flagrant challenge to the one-China principle."

American company Impossible Foods is looking to make inroads in Chinese market by selling its fake meat products.

The company's chief executive Pat Brown said China is an absolutely essential and extremely important market. But he also said that China is the world's largtest meat consumer and "every time someone in China eats a piece of meat, a little puff of smoke goes up in the Amazon." Is that true?

British royal couple Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced on Wednesday that they will step back from their roles as senior members of the royal family.

In today’s Buzz, we discussed what triggered the couple's decision, and how being “part-time” member of the royal family might work.

Thanks to China’s e-commerce platforms and its booming consumer market, this week Rwanda’s Ambassador to China, James Kimonyo, sold two thousand bags of coffee beans within just 10 minutes by livestreaming on Taobao.

In today's Buzz, we discussed China’s coffee culture, Alibaba’s electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP), and what drives China’s cross-border e-commerce imports.

Douyin, China's domestic version of TikTok, gathered 400 million daily active users this month. That's almost double the number of users the platform had at this time last year.

① The young Chinese generation represented by post-90s influence China's economy. ② Cameras equipped with AI software will be installed in the South Korean capital of Seoul.