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Diet

Command and control

[2014-07-24 07:13]

The days of fighting over the TV remote may soon be over.

Faking the grade

[2014-07-23 07:36]

On the day that Li Chang, 19, received admission offers from seven well-known US universities in late June, his father Li Wanjin had the most satisfying sleep in a year.

Counterfeit application part of a larger problem

[2014-07-23 07:36]

Faking college application materials is a serious problem as it is related to fairness in education and meritocracy.

Students should apply to US schools personally instead of depending on recruitment agencies for their admission applications, the US consulate general in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, suggested.

Belief in building

[2014-07-22 07:34]

When graduate student Chen Xin visited the White Horse Temple in Luoyang of Henan province, she never expected to see shrines built in foreign styles there.

Help from the Land of Smiles

[2014-07-22 07:34]

In a Buddhist temple complex in Henan province, nine Thais have been working from 6 am to 5 pm almost every day for more than three years.

Religious center

[2014-07-22 07:34]

Established in AD 68 under the patronage of Emperor Liu Zhuang in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD25-220), which had Luoyang as its capital, White Horse Temple is the first Buddhist temple in China and the starting point of the spread of Buddhism in the country.

Tall order for civil servants

[2014-07-21 07:23]

After Zheng Dewei's 27-year-old son brought his girlfriend home early this year, the township official started planning a magnificent wedding for the young couple.

Necessary change

[2014-07-21 07:23]

Government officials are spending more time with their families thanks to the crackdown on graft, latest figures from the National Bureau of Statistics showed.

Providing support for 'the roof of the world'

[2014-07-18 07:08]

In the early hours of a Sunday in June, Li Hongxia was woken by a phone call from the Todlung Deqen People's Hospital in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet autonomous region. Li jumped out bed, grabbed her coat and rushed to a delivery room to help a woman experiencing a difficult birth.

Shifting the focus from infrastructure to industry

[2014-07-18 07:08]

Because the herders on the Tibetan plateau follow the seasons in their search for fertile pastures, they spent much of the year in makeshift accommodations, which are always under threat when blizzards or landslides occur on the exposed land.

Working across the divide

[2014-07-17 07:06]

Many people have forgotten, or are even unaware, that 140,000 Chinese workers served on the Western Front during World War I. These workers' contributions as manual labor during the war were significant, scholars say. Most of them were volunteers, farmers in search of better wages. One hundred thousand of them formed the Chinese Labour Corps under British forces, and 40,000 were employed by French factories and farms.