Twenty-six years after the first five cases of a novel immunodeficiency disease were described, the AIDS pandemic has become the world's biggest public health crisis. In order to end this epidemic, scientists have been trying to develop a vaccine. However, countless failures have smashed their hopes again and again.
HAMBURG: Rose hips may provide an effective alternative treatment for sufferers of crippling rheumatoid arthritis, according to new research by scientists in Germany and Denmark.
The life of Liu Defang, a storyteller from Central China's Hubei Province, is as dramatic as his immense collection of folktales, legends and jokes.
In Peter B.C. Huang's vision, a Chinese person will be able to discover his or her ancestral line going back several centuries just by typing their surname into a website. He may be talking about the future, maybe several decades later, but he's already working on this goal.
SHANGHAI: German designer Jutta Friedrichs always had a feeling she would end up in Asia. Initially she thought she would live in Tokyo, but fate had other ideas.
Sometimes lyrical, other times bizarre, the English menu translations of Chinese dishes - when they are even attempted - often provide the foreign diner with scant clue as to the ingredients of the dish. For new expats, or those with limited language skills, hunger pangs can mean wandering the streets in search of a picture menu, or relying on local friends to accompany you for meals.
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