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Debate: A baby hatch, set up by Jinan Children Welfare Office, Shandong province, on June 1 has stirred controversy. While supporters say the baby hatches save lives, critics say they encourage more irresponsible parents to abandon their babies. What are your thoughts about baby hatches? Do you think they could possibly encourage child abandonment and women to keep the birth secret?

Bilingual: Overweight people will be paid to lose weight under a radical new British government plan unveiled last week to tackle the escalating obesity crisis. Under the National Health Service-backed plan, those who shed the kilograms will be rewarded with cash or shopping vouchers. Incentives could be higher or lower depending on the amount of weight a participant loses, although the amounts are still unclear. However only those with a job will qualify - and employers will also be urged to offer incentives to staff who lose weight.

Metro Beijing: The Palace Museum, former home to the 24 emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, is also known as the Forbidden City. But recently the store of the Palace Museum at Taobao, China's largest online shopping website, has become hot on the Internet. Chinese netizens actively engaged in discussion about the beaded earbuds that carry a retail price of 120 yuan ($20), and said they are very cool.