Concerns about the welfare of animals displayed in zoos outside of China have spawned regulations that govern their humane handling, treatment and transportation.
In an otherwise unremarkable hospital waiting room in Zhoushan, the first city in China to move away from the one-child policy, an expectant father places his hand on the protruding curve of his wife's belly.
In 1958, Mao Zedong presented an inspiring vision of the role of women in society when he declared they "hold up half the sky".
In 2013, nyuhanzi became one of the most popular Internet words in China. In Chinese, it literally means a "female man", or a man inside a woman's body. Metaphorically, it means a woman who thinks and behaves like a man, especially men with undisciplined habits.
Yang Yang knows how it feels to be bathed in glory. She is the first Chinese athlete to stand on the champions podium at the Winter Olympics, winning two gold medals, two silvers and one bronze for short-track speedskating between 1998 and 2006.
On a chilly Monday afternoon, Wang Dandan walked idly around the Yuanfeng Hotel in Zhongtang, a township in Dongguan, Guangdong province, where she worked for just one month at the end of last year.
A 2009 research report, 100 Countries and Their Prostitution Policies, lists attitudes worldwide toward commercial sex.
After paying the princely sum of 5 yuan (80 cents), a group of tourists lined up to take a peek at the Democratic People's Republic of Korea through telescopes set up on the banks of the Yalu River in the northeastern Chinese city of Dandong.
It is not the winning but the taking part that counts.
On Tuesday, Wu Chong returned from an eight-day trip to Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic. She said she found few Chinese travelers in the museums and historic sites of Scandinavia, but saw several groups of them in Prague.
The rival Koreas agreed on Wednesday to hold a reunion later this month for families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War - the first such event for more than three years. Seoul and Pyongyang said they would hold the meeting from Feb 20 to 25, three days later than agreed before, according to local media reports.
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