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Training roles

[2017-02-13 08:33]

In addition to the highly-developed qualities dogs have as team members, they can do much more. Their visual and olfactory abilities are literally superhuman, so they can go where a soldier cannot and can often subdue or intimidate an enemy more quickly and with nonlethal force. Even when there is little or no wind, a dog can detect intruders up to 900 meters away using its senses of smell, hearing and sight.

Putting the pieces back together again

[2017-02-13 08:33]

A family in Chonqing is still struggling to pick up the pieces, more than three years after a brutal attack that left their 18-month-old son with life-changing injuries.

Celebrating a Robin Hood-like folk hero

[2017-02-13 08:33]

Carrying the golden statue of a revered ancient general, villagers in eastern China dash wildly through waterlogged fields in a mud-spattered celebration of a local rebel adored for stealing from the rich to give to the poor.

Around China

[2017-02-13 08:33]

Hebei

Change of tone in Trump's cordial phone call to Xi

[2017-02-11 07:14]

First it was that belated Chinese Lunar New Year's greeting.

Duplicity, thy other name is Japanese policy

[2017-02-11 07:14]

On Jan 29, The Sunday Times reported that the Japanese embassy in Britain had been paying ￡10,000 ($12,480) a month to Henry Jackson Society, a registered charity, to encourage British politicians and journalists to oppose China's foreign policy. One such opposition came from Britain's former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind.

May's tough search for trading partners

[2017-02-11 07:14]

Even before she embarked on what turned out to be a controversial visit to the White House, British Prime Minister Theresa May said she planned an early trip to China that would focus on boosting trade.

Phasing out outdated practices through advocacy

[2017-02-11 07:14]

A series of recent local regulations targeting civil servants has drawn huge media attention. Kaili, a city in Southwest China's Guizhou province, issued a regulation on banquets which, among other things, says officials can hold a banquet for only their "first marriage".