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Yunnan boosts efforts to stem trafficking

[2016-11-04 08:14]

One of the biggest hits at the Chinese box office during the recent National Day holidays was Operation Mekong, an action-thriller by Hong Kong director Dante Lam, which depicts the hunt for a drug lord in the wilds of the Golden Triangle, Asia's largest opium-producing area that straddles Myanmar, Laos and Thailand.

Major busts at the Mukang border checkpoint

[2016-11-04 08:14]

1. Aug 17: an SUV traveling from Ruili, a city on the border with Myanmar, to Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, was discovered to be carrying 35 grams of methamphetamine in a water drainage channel, plus 31 kilograms of opium and about 4 kg of opium poppy seeds in the spare tire. The driver was found to have concealed nearly 16 kg of opium and 5 kg of methamphetamine at his home.

Dangerous work and hard decisions

[2016-11-04 08:14]

Two years ago, Wang Fei was a typical middle school student - an aspiring fashionista, who enjoyed Korean movies and hanging out with friends.

A life spent working with dinosaurs

[2016-11-04 08:14]

Chongqing's Museum of Natural History boasts one of the largest collections of dinosaur fossils in the country and since 1977, Zhu Songlin and his team have worked hard to preserve nearly 200 dinosaur skeletons.

Around China

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Pilot returns home after circling the globe

[2016-11-04 08:14]

A 54-year-old amateur pilot has become the first man to circumnavigate the globe in a private plane starting and ending in China.

Living wills enliven debate about death

[2016-11-03 07:58]

Attitudes to death are changing in China. Once, the subject was taboo - the number four, si in Chinese, is still deemed unlucky because it sounds uncomfortably like the word for death - and traditionally, people have been reluctant to discuss the end of life or challenge treatment plans presented by physicians or close relatives.