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The Chen brothers and sister have never felt so closely connected to each other - after a 14-hour transplant operation on Tuesday, they are now bonded not only by blood but also by liver.
Veteran Hong Kong actress Shen Dianxia, also known as Lydia, died Tuesday morning in Hong Kong, Taiwan media outlet TVBS reports.
Twenty days of snow and icy rain on the 87-km Chenzhou section of the Beijing-Zhuhai expressway paralyzed traffic, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded.
Thirty-three years ago, Xie Yanxin promised his dying wife he would take care of her elderly parents and mentally challenged brother. But he never thought fulfilling his promise would make him a national icon for humanitarianism.
Actress Zhang Ziyi was accused of lip-synching during the annual CCTV Spring Festival evening gala.
World Bank President Robert Zoellick said the bank had appointed leading Chinese academic, Justin Yifu Lin, as its chief economist, which would help further strengthen ties with China.
Yuan Longping, known as the father of hybrid rice, is inching toward the finish line in a decade-long race to raise crop yield.
Gu Chujun, the former chairman of refrigerator giant Guangdong Kelon Electrical Holdings, was yesterday jailed for 12 years and fined 6.8 million yuan ($945,000) for misappropriation, graft and other crimes.
For a younger generation that is as futuristic as the National Grand Theater, the composer of the Red Women Detachment is typically a reminder of a period when people had few other choices but to watch "model plays".
Zhang Hanzhi, the woman who tutored Chairman Mao Zedong and interpreted for him and US President Richard Nixon during the latter's historic visit to China, died on Saturday. She was 73.
In a rare honor, the Indian government conferred Ji Xianlin the Padma Bhushan - one of the country's top civilian awards - on Republic Day on Saturday.
Liu Yonghao, who started out selling pig feed and later became one of the mainland's richest, sees recent pork price hikes as a call to go back to his old business.
