'A man in his 90s sobbed at the door of an old adobe house. He grumbled that he had so much farm work to do every day, but his mother still assigned him new tasks, such as helping his grandmother chop firewood and cook supper. When asked where his mother was, the old man pointed to the mountains and said: 'She's cutting pigweed somewhere in the valley'."
The surface of the Gulf of Aden was flat except for the water stirred up by the Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark.
I love animals. Back at home in Xinjiang, I have two goldfish, "Tiny Gold" and "Beauty". I also have two cats, one is Xiao Gang or Little Tough, the other is Man Yue, or Full Moon, because of his beautiful eyes.
What's the best conversational icebreaker when you are on a cruise?
Peng Jianguo was giving instructions to his employees in the metals recycling unit at a new facility in Gejiu, Yunnan province, site of 24 percent of the world's tin deposits.
As one of the key projects for Gejiu's tin industry, Lai Qinguo's workshops, which make tin artifacts, moved to their current site in Shandian township two and a half years ago. The site covers 70 hectares and houses more than 10 workshops. The land was provided free of charge by the city government to encourage artisans such as Lai.
The arrest of Xue Manzi, a 60-year-old "celebrity" with more than 12 million followers on Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, on charges of soliciting a prostitute has triggered a heated online discussion nationwide.
Editor's note: Chu, a Fudan University lecturer, writes a micro-blog under the name Wenyuangedaxueshi, or "Great Scholar". He has more than 50,000 followers on Sina Weibo.
The trial of former Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai, the verdict of which is to be announced at a later date, has fueled public debate about the punishments that should be meted out to corrupt officials.
This is the quietest season in the northern pasturelands of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
One by one, the joggers passed Dou Bao, a few giving her a quick glance. She is the queen of the campus sports field at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. She and the humans swap shifts to rule this territory. The humans control the days, she rules the nights.
A growing number of video clips depicting the abuse of pets have been circulating online for a number of years. Every time they are posted, Weibo and other social networking sites are flooded with messages denouncing the perpetrators.
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