London is seeking to raise its profile as a preferred listing destination for Chinese companies following the massive initial public offering of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd in New York.
When the Chinese media approached starting center Wang Zhelin to talk about the national basketball team's poor performance at the Asian Games, the towering 20-year-old bowed his head to avoid the TV cameras.
July 2011: Xi Jinping, China's vice-president at the time, stated his three sporting wishes: first, that China will be chosen to host the soccer World Cup; second, that the national team qualifies for the event again; and, third, that one day the China team will win the prestigious tournament.
It's not easy to reach Panjiayu, a village in the countryside around Tangshan, Hebei province.
When he spoke about the massacre, 87-year-old Pan Shouli became so angry that he beat the ground with his walking stick in fury.
My school, The Panjiayu Hope Elementary School, stands on the spot where most of the carnage happened during the massacre. There are more than 60 students in seven classes. There are seven teachers, and each of them, including me, teaches at least three or four subjects.
Tang Zhou and his wife are planning to have their second child, a test-tube baby.
An Australian couple was reported to have abandoned a baby with his surrogate mother in Thailand because the baby had Down syndrome - but accepted the boy's healthy twin sister.
Rules on surrogacy vary from country to country, which can lead to pitfalls and complications for would-be parents.
The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States was fighting for his life at a Dallas hospital, a top US health official said, adding that one of the experimental medicines for the virus was not available, while another carries risks that were being weighed by the victim's family.
US-British scientist John O'Keefe and a Norwegian married couple, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering the "inner GPS" that helps the brain navigate through the world.
Brazil's leftist President Dilma Rousseff won a first-round election on Sunday and will face business favorite Aecio Neves in what is shaping up to be a hard-fought runoff.
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