One of China's brightest Olympic medal prospects, Pang Panpan, aims to repeat her past near-perfect performances at a World Cup Gymnastics meet on home soil this weekend.
A former senior international cycling official has launched a broadside at Chinese administrators, accusing them of retarding the sport's progress by failing to adopt advanced selection processes and foreign training methods.
Seven young men all in their early 30s, wearing strange robot-face helmets and white shirts with similar eye-catching images printed on the front, were taking the escalator upstairs to a cinema at the Golden Resources Shopping Mall in west Beijing. An eight-year-old boy standing by curiously gazed at them.
Like all famous historical figures, Zheng He, the greatest navigator in Chinese history, has not escaped controversy. The size of his fleet ships and the routes his voyages took continue to ignite heated debates worldwide.
A notebook in hand, Mary Lepneva wrote down all the Chinese phrases that were new to her, while working as a volunteer for the Fourth China-Russia Women's Cultural Week.
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