A powerful lineup of 18 social leaders, including Yao Ming, Pan Shiyi, Yang Lan and Liu Heung Shing swore a common oath to make China a more inclusive country for people with intellectual disabilities. They made the commitment when joining a senior advisory council established by the international organization of the Special Olympics in its East Asia section, in Beijing on Sunday.
When Zhang Qing started to work at the Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the early 1990s, "cancer" was a strange word to most people. Many could not tell the difference between a tumor and a cancer, recalls the oncologist.
March 27 was a special day for Beijing resident Zhang Jun.
China is calling for closer ties among the bio-pharmaceutical industry, academic bodies and government departments so as to boost innovation in research and development.
Three years ago, they were famers cultivating their land with hoes and sickles. Their daily life was all about planting corn and raising their families.
Lady Linda Wong Davies didn't listen to her first pop record until she was 15. Raised by her father, Dato Wong Kee Tat, a Chinese-Malaysian businessman, she grew up with Italian opera and Mozart.
Bad timing, jokes that fall flat or an audience that just doesn't get it; such occupational hazards can lead to a slow, painful "stage death" for the stand-up comic.
A Chinese/English version of the Arctic Voyage Guide (The Northeast Passage) will be published in July, aiming to enhance navigation safety for national and international vessels traveling in the Arctic.
If you think of baijiu, the typical Chinese spirit, as burning your throat, fouling your nostrils and offending your taste buds, read on, for your impression is a grave injustice to the country's national drink that should soon be dispelled.
Restaurateur Michelle Garnaut helped reinvent the historic Bund waterfront as a premium location for eateries and nightclubs in Shanghai by opening M on the Bund in 1999, a move that also earned her a privileged place in Nicholas Lander's book The Art of the Restaurateur.
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