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Following promising news from three COVID-19 vaccine trials showing 90-95 percent efficacy, U.S. employers are weighing up whether to simply encourage employees to get vaccinated or make it mandatory. What’s your opinion? Find out more on Studio Plus.

Once viewed as the lesser substitute for campus-based learning, online degrees are going from strength to strength. As the pandemic endures, how will they be viewed against their traditional counterparts? Find out more on Studio Plus.

'Hangry' is the clever combination of the words 'hungry' and 'angry.' While most experience hanger occasionally due to skipping a meal when pressured for time during a busy day, the pandemic may have made it a more frequent occurrence. What are the reasons you are more vulnerable to being hangry right now? Find out more on Studio Plus.

The proportion of young Japanese who are not married or dating has been on the rise over the past 20 years, according to research on census data by a team at the University of Tokyo. Listen to Studio Plus hosts, Li Ningjing and Liu Min, discuss what has led to this phenomenon.

According to a study by the University of Bristol, the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic and the first COVID-19 lockdown caused the number of young people with anxiety to nearly double, jumping from 13 percent to 24 percent among the ages of 27 to 29. How to deal with mental health issues during the pandemic remains an issue. Find out more on Studio Plus.

The 2020 Shanghai Youth's New Expectation Questionnaire Survey Report has been released. Join Studio Plus as they explore the attitudes and perspectives of today's young Shanghainese in the fields of employment and entrepreneurship, consumption, marriage, and financial management.

Sixty-one percent of Americans have changed their Thanksgiving plans due to recent spikes in COVID-19 cases, according to a new poll released this week by Axios-Ipsos. For those who are traveling back home, tune in to Studio Plus for tips on how to protect yourself at the airport and during your flight.

Amazon UK is investigating what has happened to missing PlayStation 5 deliveries, amid reports of theft. Customers were shocked to find unordered items, such as kitchen appliances and even cat food, being delivered instead of the long-anticipated gaming console. Tune in to Studio Plus for more details.

Immersive puzzle-solving games, such as escape rooms and murder mysteries, have become the latest recreational trend in China. What is the appeal of these brain-racking and mystery-solving pastimes? Tune in to Studio Plus for the answers.

The U.S. streaming platform Netflix has announced plans to make a movie adaptation of the Chinese literary classic, 'Water Margin.' The news quickly became a hot topic of discussion on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo, with netizens' expectations mingled with hope and doubts. Tune in to Studio Plus to find out more.