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What is Beijing badly in need of? The answers can be diverse, from wider roads to a solution to ease traffic congestion, from more blue sky days to housing projects for the middle class who are grumbling about skyrocketing real estate prices, just to name a few.
Yang Fuxi, 48-year-old Beijing resident and China's last known traditional bow and arrow maker, is plying a dying craft and has made it his mission to keep it alive.
A Chinese stone materials plant in Kenya was attacked by four unidentified assailants, leaving one Chinese engineer dead and another wounded, state media reported on Thursday.
The secret "Bianlian", or face-changing, Sichuan Opera technique is being sold for only 3,000 yuan (US$385.85) on taobao.com, a major auction website in China, the Beijing Morning Post reported Wednesday.
Deep in Mount Taihang there is a primary school with only two pupils and a teacher, who has recently caught the attention of the cyber-world.
Monogamy, a common practice on the mainland, is being undermined by some of the rich and officials who are practicing bigamy, state media reported on Wednesday.
China's Olympic gold winner and top short track speed skater Wang Meng finally smiled after tasting a sweet revenge in the 500m race on Tuesday at the current Winter Asiad, one day after she was humiliated by the South Korean squad to sneak to third.
Qian Zhijun, dubbed "Xiao Pang" or "Little Fatty" who has made a name with a photo of him that was altered into all kinds of funny portraits on the Internet by PhotoShop users, makes his debut as a cooking program host for a TV station in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province January 29. [Qingdaonews.com]
Jin Yue, helmsman of CCTV Spring Festival Gala 2007, said a familiar string of popular CCTV presenters will again preside over the new year gala, dismissing speculations that young, fresh faces will replace old ones in this year's host lineup.
A small intestine transplant patient, a 27-year-old man from the central Henan Province, married on Saturday nearly eight years after an organ transplant from his father saved his life.
A chemical plant in the northeastern province of Jilin has been ordered to pay a one-million-yuan penalty by the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) for polluting the Songhua River, Xinhua reported January 25.
Once an online star on tianyaclub.com, the biggest online community in China, Zhang Keke, a female singer who showed her photos and songs on the website before rising to stardom, recently took the BBS portal to court.
