Bride price in mainland China has no legal cap, but a court can order it returned
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Electronic signatures in Singapore and Malaysia, and the documents the law still excludes
In Singapore a typed, drawn or pasted signature can meet a legal signature requirement if the method identifies the sign...
How Singapore postcodes work, from the sector to the block number
The first two digits of a Singapore postcode are the postal sector, which maps to one of 28 districts; for an HDB flat t...
HSK 3.0 word counts by level, and how far old HSK words carry over
The syllabus the new HSK is tested on lists 11,000 words: 300 for level 1 up to 5,400 by level 6, with levels 7 to 9 sha...
What to call your relatives in Chinese, and why one in five has more than one answer
Of 1,195,740 family relationships up to six steps, about 53% have one standard Chinese term, 20% could be several people...
How accurate is the Chinese gender chart, and why versions disagree
A test on 2.8 million Swedish births found the Chinese gender chart no better than a coin toss, and simply guessing "boy...
Why stopping distance charts disagree at the same speed
At 90 km/h, Singapore's driving handbook says 95 metres, Britain's table gives 73 at a slightly higher speed, and US roa...
How many poems are in 300 Tang Poems, and how many Tang poems survive
The Three Hundred Tang Poems holds 320 poems in the editions we counted, and its preface only ever promised "three hundr...
What a lucky 8 adds to a Hong Kong car plate, and what a 4 costs
Across 2,679 plates sold at Hong Kong's online auctions, each extra 8 went with a price about 51% to 65% higher and each...
Chinese typing speed in WPM, and why dividing by five gets it wrong
Hong Kong's civil service asks for 15 Chinese characters a minute, which looks tiny beside English speeds only because t...
Types of procrastinators, and what the one real test found
The arousal, avoidant and decisional procrastinator types are the only typology we found that has been put through a lar...
Do NFT creators still get royalties
Over one day on OpenSea, collections that enforce their royalty paid it on 711 of 719 sales, and collections where it wa...
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