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Recording artists Wang Taili (left) and Xiao Yang of the Chopsticks Brothers perform at the 2014 American Music Awards at the Nokia Theater Los Angeles, on Sunday. The pop duo's Little Apple won the International Song Award at the gala.  Kevin Winter / Getty Images / AFP

India plans high-speed rail project with China

China is in discussions with India to help it build the world's second-longest high-speed railroad with a price tag of 200 billion yuan ($32.6 billion), its latest efforts to push for a bigger share of the overseas high-speed market.

Nation and Digest

Comment

State monopolies face a shake-up

China is to end a monopoly over the production and sale of table salt, dismantling a system that has been in place in various guises for more than 2,000 years and run by a state monopoly since 1950. The disbanding of the salt monopoly will start in 2016 and be complete by 2017.

World

Spacecraft docks with ISS

A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday to deliver three new crew members to the International Space Station, including Italy's first female astronaut.

Yuanping Special

Cradle for creativity

With a long tradition of poetry, calligraphy and painting, Yuanping city in Shanxi province is widely regarded a cradle of culture.

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