In its Nov 2 issue, Time Asia ran a profile of Han Han, calling him the "best-selling novelist, champion amateur race-car driver, wildly popular blogger and, as his self-consciously provocative antics at the track underlined, China's most media-savvy celebrity rebel".
Ten years after he first exposed their deadly secret in 1999, Gui who blew the whistle on China's "AIDS villages" is still sneaking into rural communities in Shangcai, offering counseling to those dying from the epidemic.
CHONGQING: A former senior judge detained on suspicion of taking bribes from gangsters committed suicide over the weekend, local authorities said yesterday.
Famous Chinese singer Zang Tianshuo has been given a six-year sentence after a second hearing in Beijing for organizing a gang fight last September that killed one person and injured several others.
SHANGHAI: A young woman caught taking off her coat on camera at US President Barack Obama's town hall meeting in Shanghai earlier this month has been propelled into temporary stardom, as netizens have both admired and harassed her.
SHANGHAI: A 14-year-old female student from Jiangsu province is poised to step from the textbooks into the history books after she was tipped to enroll at one of China's top universities, thanks to a pilot program aimed at improving the country's university entrance system.
Renowned Chinese literature translator Yang Xianyi has died, Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. He was 94.
Renowned Chinese literature translator Yang Xianyi has died at the age of 94, Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday.
Two Chinese professors of English literature, also father and son, have completed the translation of US comparative literary critic Rene Wellek's landmark volume Theory of Literature in 28 years.
Chinese pianist Lang Lang has become an inspiration to tens of millions around the world. Among his dazzling long list of titles, Lang considered UNICEF goodwill ambassador the most special one.
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