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Craw-ning glory
With his face smeared in spicy red crawfish sauce, New Yorker Jon E Liong learned that setting a new world record in rural China can be a tough. |
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Tricks of the trade
Cards and mahjong seem to come alive in Ma Honggang's hands. It is as though he can pull out whatever card he wants. |
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Chinglish: War of words
Two academics are going toe to toe over the issue: For American David Tool, it shows nothing but shameful disrespect for English. |
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What a corker!
After performing a dozen TV series in the last eight years, Wang Luoyong, the first Asian actor to land a lead role on Broadway |
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Sound foundations for Russia's rising star
Baimurat Allaberiyev, a diminutive native of Tajikistan who has herded sheep, picked cotton and toiled in construction, hardly looks like Russia's latest musical sensation. |
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Time-tested cures
What connects a 66-year-old farmer in a small mountain village in China's Inner Mongolia with a 50-year-old Australian from Queensland. |
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Look who's talking
All the Chinese-speaking foreign stars featured in this article insisted on conducting the interview in Mandarin. |
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Fancy acupuncture? Try Brisbane
Wally Simpson has been to China only once - for a three-week trip through the rural areas of Hunan province - in 2004. |
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Wine wizards from Oz
Two of the world's foremost wine experts have been in Beijing to pass on their knowledge. |
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Four-night festival feast
While the two-month-long Opera Festival presented by National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) is going to close the curtain by the end of June. |
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