In the run-up to the FIFA World Cup 2014, Chinese soccer fans have been attempting to wrap their tongues around some of the exotic names from the national squads, with Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Lazaros Christodoulopoulos of Greece, and Reza Ghoochannejhad of Iran among those that have proved the most perplexing.
As an expert on amphibians and reptiles, it's hardly surprising that Rao Dingqi's 15-square-meter office at the Kunming Institute of Zoology is packed with weighty tomes relating to turtles, snakes, frogs and other creatures. Several glass cases that sit on and under his desk contain a menagerie of stuffed animals, most of them collected earlier this year.
Chen Xin, who works for an academic institute in Beijing, said he is experiencing the hardest time of his life because the "perfect" house exchange he has spent a long time planning has been ruined by the recent slump in the price of residential property.
Lu Su, 32, an architect at a company in the west of Beijing, was disappointed when friends told him that he had bought his home at the wrong time and, consequently, had paid far too much.
Saturday morning signals the start of two days of grueling activity, both mental and physical, as students take the national university entrance exam known as gaokao. Because success in the exam can open the door to a well-paid job and high social standing, the pressure on the students can be overwhelming.
China's cosmetics industry will enter uncharted waters at the end of the month when the rules requiring live animal testing will be relaxed for certain products.
When 20 vehicles set off on the first-ever Kolkata-to-Kunming car rally in 2013, the event wasn't simply a sporting contest, it was a harbinger of things to come.
With about 40 percent of the world's population, a rising middle class, higher disposable incomes and a long history of trading activity, the case is being made for the growth of tourism in the Bangladesh, China, India and Myanmar, or BCIM, region.
The fishermen of Tanmen had returned to their home port, leaving their wooden boats riding at anchor in a colorful cluster, floating side by side on the busy waterfront in Hainan province.
Tanmen's fishermen work closely with the Chinese border guards, who patrol both land and sea.
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