The number of Chinese mainland students studying in colleges and universities in the United States exceeded 300,000 for the first time this academic year, according to a report released in the US on Monday.
One of the lawyers representing a village in Fujian province in its quest to win custody of a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue they say was stolen in 1995 said an appeal would be submitted to a Dutch court later this month.
With China aiming to boost its sports industry as a new economic driver, observers are calling for a shift in sports consumption from tangible products to areas with greater potential such as fitness services and athletic entertainment.
In July, Zhang Baohua had surgery for rectal cancer at a hospital in his home province of Shandong. Two months later, he visited a clinic at the Beijing Cancer Hospital for a consultation about ongoing postoperative complications and a severe loss of body mass that had left him weighing just 45 kilograms.
Businesswoman Serkyi is a modern day Renaissance woman, known among the Yugur as a tribal "junkwoman", museum owner, horseback-riding elementary school teacher, khata maker and painter.
As the only foreigner working in Shandan, a remote county in Gansu province between the Gobi Desert and the Tibetan-Qinghai Plateau, Michael Forde occasionally feels isolated from his New Zealand home.
The Yugurs are an ancient nomadic people, descendents of a branch of the Uygurs who prospered during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) around the southeast Tarim Basin in Central Asia.
The human desire for longer life is insatiable, it seems. In the 1950s, life expectancy in China was about 40.
Maca, a member of the Brassicaceae family, has been cultivated in Peru for more than 2,000 years, where it grows exclusively in the central Andes at an altitude of about 3,000 meters, according to Yang Shengchao, a professor at Yunnan Agriculture University.
In July, after four years of recruiting police officers for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations, Huang Wei, 49, associate professor at Hunan Police Academy, returned to China.
What is the best way for the world to understand that a stronger China will shoulder greater international responsibilities? A quick answer is: peacekeeping.
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