The soldiers I met in Gamba are of a similar age to me, and the question that filled my head, along with the inevitable altitude headache, was how they achieved the transformation from single child to soldier in one of the most inhospitable places in the world.
Jack, a 10-year-old Chinese orphan, blew out his birthday candles on the last Saturday of July, surrounded by his host family in Garland, Texas.
A 12-year-old boy accidentally lost his footing and tore a hole in a famous painting valued at $1.5 million while visiting a gallery in Taiwan.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend the V-Day ceremonies in Beijing on Sept 3 during a five-day visit starting on Wednesday.
Juveniles from Jiangsu province who commit crimes in Shanghai can be brought to their hometown for redemption and supervision thanks to the country's first intra-provincial cooperation in juvenile prosecutions.
Professor Paul Chin-wu Chu, founding director and chief scientist at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, is one of five overseas Chinese - and the only one in the US-invited to view the military parade on Sept 3 from Tian'anmen Rostrum in Beijing.
The top Party school, a key training center for senior officials, has carried out a campus renovation plan that has erected new statues of renowned communist figures Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping to boost Party spirit and inspire officials, according to the school authority.
China lowered the down payment for those who use their housing provident funds to buy a second home, signaling its intention to prop up the property market in a time of battered confidence.
Four ministries have vowed to accelerate reforms to promote listed companies to merge and regroup, and encouraged them to distribute dividends in cash and buy back their own shares.
One year ago, Jack Ma, the founder and chairman of Alibaba Group, decided to buy a 50-percent stake in the Chinese Super League soccer club Guangzhou Evergrande for 1.2 billion yuan ($191 million).
A complete high-speed railway circle is to start operation in Hainan province by the end of this year to further promote tourism of the island.
More than 300 kindergartens, primary and middle schools in Tianjin Binhai New Area, including 16 affected by the huge blasts on Aug 12, began the new semester on Monday.
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