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  • Sharp-eyed cop picks out pickpockets in crowd

    2010-11-10 07:26

    Some say Tang Wenlong has a pair of X-ray eyes and a "sixth sense" which can detect pickpockets in a crowd.

  • Recipe for a fulfilling career

    2010-11-09 07:19

    Friends and family thought Cao Shun had it made when she was working in a foreign company, flying around the country and checking into five-star hotels.

  • Brush with fame

    2010-11-09 06:44

    To celebrate the first Chinese Cultural Day held at the United Nations, the work of contemporary calligrapher Yan Gongda will be displayed on Nov 12.

  • A teacher’S Dedicatton

    2010-11-07 08:39

    More than 1,600 meters above sea level, there is an unusual school with only one teacher and eight pupils. This is the Xichan elementary school in Xijingshan village in the Taihang Mountains, Heshun county of Shanxi province, a school surrounded on three sides by steep stretches of mountains.

  • Columnist loves being 'sister'

    2010-11-05 08:33

    The columnist behind Zhixin Jiejie, or 'caring sister', who doles out advice to children and teens, appears in the newspaper as a cartoon image of a young girl with two braids hanging from the back of the head.

  • Making sex as easy as ABC

    2010-11-04 07:56

    The book, The ABCs of Sexual Relationships, delved into sex, a taboo subject in China. It took Zhang more than eight months to convince his wife the book was part of his duty as director of the Guangdong Provincial Commission of Population and Family Planning.

  • China's green movement pioneer dies at 78

    2010-11-03 11:13

    A portrait of Liang Congjie, who died on Oct 28, 2010, at the age of 78 in Beijing. As one of the founders of Friends of Nature, China's first non-governmental environment organization in 1993, the pioneering Chinese activist worked for natural protection such as saving the Hongya natural forest in western Sichuan province, golden monkeys dwelling in Yunnan province and initiating an anti-hunting program of Tibetan antelope in Hoh Xil.

  • Soccer player kicks game into touch

    2010-11-03 08:32

    After eight years in China's top First Division A league and four years abroad, Gao, 30, has earned himself a comfortable life that most Chinese white-collar employees could barely afford.

  • Confucius calms Paris woes

    2010-11-02 07:37

    Kong Xianglin, a 75th-generation descendant of Confucius (551-479 BC), wasn't able to enjoy such convenience when he lectured in Paris recently.

  • Botanist plants seeds to preserve the future

    2010-10-29 08:17

    In the eyes of China's leading botanist Shen Maocai, each plant species has the potential to save the world.

  • Trainee takes life at a different clip

    2010-10-28 08:29

    Sporting a hedgehog hairstyle with colored spikes on top, Ma Zengkun does not look much different from the other employees at the busy hair salon where he works in northeast Beijing.

  • Puppeteer hangs on tradition

    2010-10-27 08:27

    Puppet master Lin Wenrong has the world on a string. Yet despite his 50 years of performing experience, he still has to use meditation to calm himself before he steps onto the stage.

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