{
  "id": 19638049,
  "title": "Retired Chinese woman cares for cancer-stricken ex-colleague for a decade, defying gossip",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/retired-chinese-woman-cares-for-cancer-stricken-ex-colleague-for-a",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-11-12T10:00:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3374206/retired-chinese-woman-cares-cancer-stricken-ex-colleague-decade-defying-gossip"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A retired woman in eastern China has spent 14 years caring for a former colleague with cancer, brushing off gossip to stand by him. According to Jinan Daily, the story began in 2012, when Zhang Ji, now 76, reconnected with her former supervisor, Zhang Hongquan, after years without contact. Widowed, estranged from his adult children and battling rectal cancer, the 82-year-old was living in squalid…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}