For train driver Xue Jun, locomotives are not machines, but friends with whom he must communicate.
When summer comes around, people like to gather with friends after work to eat lobster and drink beer. Behind the scenes of the seasonal feasting, a 65-year-old entrepreneur has been busily making it easier to cook the crustaceans.
In the nearly two years she has spent in Beijing, Yihebale Ilham has had most of her clothes mailed to the capital from her hometown in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region as she didn't want to waste even a moment on shopping.
It is a saga worthy of any epic novel, including village squabbles, accusations of snobbery and the threat of squandering the legacy of some of Britain's best-loved authors.
Bradley Cooper is not a generous actor. His leading roles in films such as Silver Linings Playbook and American Sniper scream "me, me, me" and you can almost smell the testosterone as he sets about hogging the limelight.
A collection of intimate letters sent by Lucian Freud to Sir Stephen Spender and kept secret for 70 years have been unveiled to the public, showing the artist in his mysterious teenage years.
For the first time, a survey with national significance has focused on the psychological health of children in rural areas who have been "left behind" by their parents who work in cities.
The data on average salaries in 2014, recently published by 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, have provoked controversy because of the gaps they have revealed between different regions and industries.
A video has been widely spread online that shows a house owner in Fuyang in East China's Anhui province crying as her house is being demolished. The woman complains that the demolition is illegal, while a laughing official simply pushes her away and says, "Do not speak anymore; you can try going to court." Comments:
On Tuesday, a cancer patient poured gasoline over a doctor and set him on fire at the No 1 Hospital Affiliated to the Guangxi Medical University in Nanning in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The doctor survived, but suffered severe burns. This is the 12th violent attack against a doctor in 20 days in China. Comments:
The punishments meted out to those who kidnap children provoked fierce online debate on Wednesday. Those in favor call for revision to the law so that child abductors receive the death penalty, a sentence which has been applied in a few human trafficking cases in the past. Comments:
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