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Regulations ensure safe food

[2012-10-23 08:05]

Stepping out from a halal hotpot restaurant in Houhai, central Beijing, Liu Jun lit a cigarette to conclude the satisfactory meal he just eaten. "I am not Muslim, but I love halal food. It's not only tasty, but safe," he said.

No horns of a dilemma over conservation

[2012-10-22 07:48]

Paul Muya, a deputy spokesman for the Kenya Wildlife Service, is concerned every time he sees reports about the booming wealth of China's middle class. He wonders if the growing affluence will whet appetites for wildlife products and fuel the poaching of elephants and rhino in his homeland.

Nothing lost in translation

[2012-10-19 07:21]

It was time for reading class at the kindergarten. A dozen children, aged 4 to 6, leaned back on their small chairs and gazed at Sarah Curtiss, their 26-year-old teacher from the United States.

The teachers' tales

[2012-10-19 07:21]

Sarah Curtiss

Obama and Romney in debatable accusations

[2012-10-18 08:07]

When US President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney faced off in their second presidential debate on Tuesday, both grabbed every opportunity to display a tough stance on China.

No sex please, we're skittish

[2012-10-17 07:51]

Ma Xiaonian, chief physician at the sexology department of Yuquan Hospital at Beijing's Tsinghua University, likes his work.

A monarch for his people

[2012-10-16 08:05]

Norodom Sihanouk, the former king of Cambodia, passed away in Beijing at the age of 90 early on Monday morning. Having lived in exile in China, Sihanouk often referred to the country as his "second homeland", and it was from China that he received his strongest political support in times of adversity, plus almost all his medical treatment in the last years of his life after being diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1994.

Versatile musician and romantic ruler

[2012-10-16 08:05]

Throughout his long life, Cambodia's former king, Norodom Sihanouk, remained a versatile and romantic man, despite his varied political activities and numerous personal upheavals.

Cambodia mourns its former ruler

[2012-10-16 08:05]

Norodom Sihanouk, the former revered king of Cambodia, died early on Monday morning in a Beijing hospital at the age of 90, according to the Foreign Ministry.

Street talk

[2012-10-16 08:05]

I was born and raised in the area where King Norodom Sihanouk had lived since he moved to Beijing. He was a very good friend of Chinese leaders from different generations. China respected him and treated him very well. The place he lived was the French embassy before the New China was founded and when he moved in, the Chinese leaders asked people to build an indoor swimming pool because they knew he loved swimming. The late king had a wide network of friends in China because he traveled to many places around the country. It's because of him that Cambodia always gives full support to China in international affairs.

School where lessons focus on leadership

[2012-10-15 08:09]

While it's always been famous in China as a must-go place for all senior officials preparing for leadership positions, the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China - usually simply known as the Central Party School - is now an increasingly popular destination for foreign leaders during their tours of the country.

Mo pens Nobel success story

[2012-10-12 08:09]

Writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy, which gives out the annual prizes, described Mo's works as "hallucinatory realism" merging "folk tales, history and the contemporary".