Shanghai natives Tang Tao and his wife, who tied the knot three years ago, were determined to divorce on Aug 30 to save some money.
Rumors began circulating that the city would not allow people who get divorced to buy a home if they already have an apartment either jointly or under the name of either partner until the marriage has been ended for more than a year. It was rumored that divorced buyers would need a 50 percent down payment, instead of 30 percent.
Yongkang Road in Shanghai is a tree-lined thoroughfare bounded on both sides by rows of three-story, residential buildings that are almost a century old.
After more than half a year trying, Song Ziming, 25, finally managed to buy an apartment in Hefei, Anhui province, about 300 kilometers from Shanghai.
Zhou Haiwang, deputy director of the Institute of Population and Development at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea said on Friday, its 68th National Day, that it "successfully" tested a nuclear warhead in the morning. This is the fifth nuclear test conducted by Pyongyang since 2006 and the second this year. The DPRK only on Wednesday rejected a UN Security Council statement condemning its latest missile tests and threatened to take "further significant measures".
The divorce sections of Shanghai's marriage registration office are witnessing a bizarre phenomenon. Instead of a hall with a solemn, if not depressing, atmosphere the divorce sections look more like bustling markets. Some branches of the city's marriage registration office, which usually receive a dozen or so couples a day, have had to impose a daily quota to limit the number of couples filing for divorce to ease employees' workload.
Progress will be worth the investment
On Sept 4, the International Union for Conservation of Nature downgraded the giant panda from "endangered" to "vulnerable" on its red list of threatened species, because the wild stocks of the species have been recovering. By the end of 2013, China had 1,864 giant pandas in the wild, 67 percent more than the number (1,114) from 1985 to 1988. The number of captive giant pandas, too, increased, from 164 to 375.
A decade ago, when she was age 19, Feng Jiamei had the world at her feet.
The ninth international Rare Disease Day, initiated by the European Organization for Rare Diseases, was marked on Feb 29 this year.
Spinal muscular atrophy is one of the most common causes of death in babies under the age of 2.
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