While Hillary Clinton emphasizes her feminine side to help her run for the US presidency, China's "iron lady" looks as steely as ever at the nation's convention of political advisors.
When migrant worker Zhu Xueqin was elected a deputy to the National People's Congress, excited dormitory mates asked for one favor.
A 36-year-old peasant worker named Fan Shusheng said a face-to-face talk with Premier Wen Jiabao last February changed his life.
Dressed in black and sitting in the corner of the room, Tai Lihua strikes an inconspicuous pose.
Li, auditor-general of the China National Audit Office (CNAO), has become a national icon for what the media has dubbed the "annual auditing storm" targeting irregular spending by government departments.
Liu Ying may be nearly 80 years old, but she is well ahead of the times when it comes to caring for the environment.
Pop prince Jay Chou has accepted a request by Fudan University's Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts to tutor its students and offer them guidance.
With a record number of 51,000 visitors turning up at the National Art Museum of China over the weekend for the Dunhuang display, museum curator Fan Di'an has not stopped smiling.
Lorin Maazel received thunderous applause over the weekend from music fans in Beijing, as the New York Philharmonic played a mixed program featuring the works of Rossini, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, and Brahms.
A wealthy young businesswoman has been sued in east China's Zhejiang Province for alleged illegal fund raising, according to a local court.
It's not easy to get the HSBC Group chairman to sit in a classroom for an hour to learn spoken and written Chinese - without getting bored.
Hong Kong singer and actor Edison Chen said on Thursday he would step away from the Hong Kong entertainment industry to "heal himself", in his first public appearance since a sex scandal broke.