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Newly available therapy gains popularity on Chinese mainland

[2014-01-15 07:21]

Taiwan native and entrepreneur Kenny Cheng frequents the Chinese mainland, but not for sight-seeing or business.

Clinical center focuses on cancers

[2014-01-15 07:21]

One of the world's largest centers for clinical trials with mice, featuring advanced translational oncology platforms with fully annotated collections of patient-derived tumor graft models, will be established in Jiangsu province.

Portraits from afar

[2014-01-14 07:18]

Driving around the area behind the Potala Palace in the Tibet autonomous region's capital Lhasa, National Geographic photographer Michael Yamashita from the United States saw a scene that he imagined a trader traveling to the holy palace along the Tea-Horse Road might have seen centuries ago.

Explorer with a lens captures China's unique history

[2014-01-14 07:18]

Photojournalist Michael Yamashita has published 10 books, most of which were inspired by his 30 National Geographic stories.

View from the very top

[2014-01-14 07:18]

Having worked as a crane operator for nearly 40 years, Wei Gensheng rose to fame suddenly not as a construction worker but a photographer. The photos he took from his sky-high working position has won much praise from professionals and the public.

Big photographer zooms in on the small details

[2014-01-14 07:18]

Michael Yamashita is among the remaining photo journalists from the era when photographers commanded big budgets for ambitious projects.

Book lovers flock to fair

[2014-01-14 07:18]

The 2014 Beijing Book Fair attracted 85,000 book lovers, who attended a host of events throughout the city.

History a hot topic for publishers

[2014-01-14 07:18]

Memoirs about the lives of ordinary people were in abundant supply at the 2014 Beijing Book Fair.

Bags of style

[2014-01-13 07:27]

Many people may know about the Hermes Birkin, a bag made in 1984 by Jean-Louis Dumas for Jane Birkin and based on a design from 1892. But how many know of the Amazona, a handbag that defined and defied a generation when it was introduced in 1975 by Spanish leather goods house Loewe, which was founded in 1846?