Mei Qing never really got to know her father until she was 41 and a stranger turned up at her door. The man told Mei that her father, who appeared anything but militaristic, was, in fact, a war hero.
The State, not non-governmental organizations, must lead the way in finding and offering help to former KMT soldiers from World War II, says Sun Chunlong, founding director of the Longyue Charity Foundation.
A slowing Chinese economy has fueled concern among many colleges for students' job prospects, but the principal of Chengdu Modern Vocational School has no such worries about her graduates.
The employment rate for higher vocational school graduates is better than that for college postgraduates this year.
The Philippines evacuated northern coastal villages, suspended ferry services and called in fishing boats on Friday as an approaching category-five storm, already labeled a super typhoon, gained strength on a path set for southern China.
Using the Wi-Fi connection at Starbucks was a better bet than risking putting confidential defense documents on a glitch-prone Pentagon computer network, a senior Defense Department official testified late on Thursday at the Guantanamo trial of five prisoners charged with plotting the Sept 11 hijacked plane attacks.
Syrian president tells US network it will take at least a year and cost $1bn
US Senator John McCain on Thursday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of allying himself with tyrants and ruling through violence and repression, in a scathing retort to a New York Times editorial by Putin earlier this month.
New leader's conciliatory comments intrigue a wary West and its allies
Mexican death toll from storms rises to 80, with dozens missing
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