SHANGHAI: Some might consider her work morbid, but Jin Peiji, a makeup artist for the dead, approaches her charges in the same way she would any living person.
He calls himself a "big mouth". Industry insiders dub him a "loose cannon". And mobile-phone users see him as their flag-bearer.
Long before Yao Ming ever dribbled a basketball, China was in love with a volleyball star.
Chinese economist Justin Yifu Lin is expected to be named as senior vice-president and chief economist of the World Bank by the end of this month, according to media reports.
When Fang Yibo was dispatched to Africa in April 2003, he expected some surprises - but the biggest of all was being made a tribal chieftain.
Chen Gang is now steering Beijing Changyang distric,which housed competition venues for the 1990 Asian Games and is home to most Olympic sites,inculingthe the Bird's Nest and Water Cube.
Seven years later,Jose Carreras is back in Beijing and on Friday night, the magnetic tenor will perform arias and love songs at the newly-opened National Grand Theater.
Liu Heung Shing advises organizations like the Hollywood talent agency Creative Artist Agency and has worked more than a decade as a senior executive at Time Warner.
Chen Zhangliang,one of the country's pioneers in genetic engineering,was elevated from his position of president of China Agricultural University to vice-chairman of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Curtis Anthony, a five-year-old boy from Dublin, Pennsylvania, lived a normal and happy life until two years ago when he suffered a seizure.
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