In an old style two-bedroom apartment house her family share the rent with a girl in Beijing's suburban district of Tongzhou, former long-distance running champion Ai Dongmei displayed all her medals to visiting journalists from CCTV - not for recalling her glittering career life, but to advertise the medals for sale.
A 24-year-old male Chinese, determined to become a woman, got financial support Sunday from South Korean transsexual entertainer Ha Ri-su to finance his gender alteration surgery, Qi Lu Evening News reported Monday.
The most prestigious universities in the Chinese mainland Peking and Tsinghua University made the news in a 2007 global elite university competitiveness ranking list as they stood at 192nd and 196th , state media said Monday.
For singer and bar-owner, Qiao Qiao, talking about her sexuality live on an Internet broadcast accessible to millions of people was easier than telling her parents that she was a lesbian.
Wei Zeyang, a 22-year-old dwarf man from a poor farmer family in Anhui Province, has lived a pretty tough life.
Li Ling is 1.28-meter tall. Many here have been calling her a 'Pea Princess' for her tiny size. While Jiang Xiaojun is 1.7-meter tall and has been portrayed as a 'Prince Charming'.
With less than 500 days away to the Beijing Olympic Games, the discussion over what the Chinese delegation should wear on the Games ceremonies has already been in full swing. The focus is Han costume - to wear or not wear.
Chinese President Hu Jintao urged all Party members and military officers to spread and put into practice the Party's new theories after a recent visit to the sickbed of a naval academy professor.
Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman, has died after an illness, her personal assistant said on Wednesday.
Good looks, sweet smiles, and youthfulness might be some of the ingredients for the making of a star. Not so for scholarly stars.
The cat-and-mouse game between "Chengguan" and unlicensed peddlers has been on in cities: "Cats" crack down "mice" by confiscating their wares and "mice" pour back with new wares when "cats" are not in sight.
A piece of bad news for nearly-a-million Chinese immigrant traders in Russia: The Kremlin began a ban on immigrant venders in its market yesterday, forcing foreign traders to pack up their stalls and leaving dozens of kiosks empty.