Six years ago, Yao Huifeng made a decision many still consider outrageous.
Yale Law School graduate Bill Drayton founded Ashoka, a global association that promotes social entrepreneurship, in 1981.
The widely held notion that only the most hands-on medical students can earn doctorates may not be true, a recent study suggests.
This year's art admission test, or yikao in Chinese, has set many pretty faces and figures in full spin. Clad in traditional Peking Opera costumes, teenage students demonstrate their performance skills, reciting, singing, and acting out their favorite Peking Opera excerpts in the seven to 10 minutes required during the two days of second-round test, organized at the Central Academy of Drama since Feb 9. Some 30 students will be recruited as freshmen for the academy's department of Peking Opera. Each February, students rush to take such tests at famous arts schools including at the Beijing Film Academy and Central Academy of Drama.
Armed with ice axes and crampons, climbers scale a 25-meter-high frozen waterfall. Their bodies are supported only by their equipment. And below them lies a frozen lake stretching across the base of a mountain.
Ice climbing is a dynamic winter sport that combines excitement, technique and determination.
When it comes to interest in science, most people enter the world on a level playing field.
"If you are upset about the direction things are going in, I hope you don't just sit around and be upset, but you feel urgent about building the long term infrastructure that needs to get built."
In the past six months, Beijing-based painter Zhong Biao has sold limited-edition prints of his oil painting Samadhi using an art app Ywart, at prices ranging from 699 yuan ($102) to 899 yuan based on the sizes of the prints.
On Thursday, Song Mei became a registered resident of Futian district, Shenzhen, which increased the district's permanent population to one million.
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