Wang Ming, a veteran political adviser, sat in the first row of seats on the shuttle bus that took him and other members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of March 5.
Even though she has lived in Beijing for several years, Chinese men are still a closed book to Cathie Watson. The 27-year-old from the UK says she is unable to read the signs - or more accurately, the lack of signs - given off by Chinese men. "Quiet", "hard to reach out to" and "shy" are the words that emerge when Watson tries to describe them.
While most couples that come to therapy report communication problems, a major characteristic of international couples that don't share the same native language is that they may, literally, have trouble communicating difficult or subtle ideas to each other.
It was about 4 am when four men jumped out of a taxi and left a baby at a small, nondescript house in Tianjin. A letter tucked inside the child's clothes simply noted its birthday and medical record.
Although the practice of setting up baby hatches is new in China, other countries have been using similar programs for some time.
Hu Zongqiang, 40, is an airplane mechanic at an Air China maintenance base in Tianjin. But his work goes far beyond that of a regular maintenance technician.
Family members of Chinese passengers on flight MH370 walked slowly out of the Metropark Lido Hotel after the regular 10 am news briefing was cancelled on Tuesday.
The Malaysian prime minister has declared that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 "ended in the southern Indian Ocean", but several questions and enigmas surrounding the tragedy remain unsolved while the world waits for explanations.
An executive at Inmarsat, the British satellite telecommunications company involved in the ongoing hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, said that a global tracking system should be established for all commercial aircraft.
The British company Inmarsat used a wave phenomenon discovered in the 19th century to analyze the seven pings its satellite picked up from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to determine its final destination.
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