Five students, ranging from sophomores to a Ph.D candidate jumped to their deaths in May in Beijing. The alarming death toll has set off a psychological health raid launched by Renmin University to tackle students' mental problems.
As the old Chinese saying goes, "beautiful women suffer unhappy fates." Lin Daiyu is so, and her impersonator Chen Xiaoxu re-acted the play in her real life.
Xiao Yang is a 23-year-old migrant from Hebei Province who is pursuing her dream of living in Beijing for six years. She enjoys the city life, but owning her own place is far from possible.
China is building more toll roads with its rocketing number of expressways, but legions of drivers are trying almost anything to avoid them.
According to Ming Pao News, several matchmaking meetings were held during the national May holiday in Beijing, each of them trying to connect more than 10,000 people.
An online service could have good news for those desperate infertile wannabe parents, as the service offers surrogate mothers as long as the price is right.
Working 10 or more hours a day, almost no days off, no regular meals and lack of sleep - that's the life for 70% of the white-collar workers.
For some ambitious Chinese investors, the May Day holiday is not a right time to enjoy the warm weather; on the contrary, it is prime time to flex their financial muscles for a heated fight for shares in the scorching stock market.
A Guangxi journalist Xiong Qian, once famous for the "one-cent case," fell ill recently and a week ago her 17-year-old daughter A'zhen posted a letter asking for help on the Internet.
New staff of a fabric-dyeing plant in Shunde, Guangdong Province joyously received their very first salary. But their excitement vanished when the fresh cash they got turned out to be counterfeit.
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