Square dancing gets new regulation

China's sports governing body issued a new regulation on Monday to manage public spaces for square dancing, with the aim of improving the image of the popular exercise.

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Organ donation program moves into overdrive

'I do." Those two words brought Liu Yuan, a father of two boys, to the verge of tears. But it wasn't a wedding vow; it was an affirmative answer from the relative of an organ donor.

'China mode' can serve as an example

In August, Huang Jiefu, chairman of the China National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee, received a message from Pope Francis praising the establishment of the "China Mode", a transparent system of organ donation and transplantation.

From saving people to saving snakes

At the gate of the Mangshan Museum of Natural History stands a statue of an elderly man with a snake wrapped around his shoulders.

Saxophones are instrumental to Tianjin village life

Adolphe Sax, the Belgian inventor of the saxophone, who would have been 203 years old on Monday, probably never imagined the instrument would one day be the lifeblood of a small Chinese village.

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'Great Wall of culture' a great idea

We live in an era of increasingly dumbed-down global gullibility, when even the most outlandish prevarications take on a veneer of respectability when prefaced with something like "According to the latest online information..."

This Day, That Year

Item from Nov 13, 1984, in China Daily: Xiamen, Fujian province, takes the lead among the country's four special economic zones by ensuring a free flow of funds in and out of the zone, and setting up the first joint venture bank, the Xiamen International Bank.

Expert: Day care needs will expand

Child abuse that allegedly took place at the in-house day care center of online travel agency Ctrip has continued to ignite public discussion after prosecutors specializing in crimes against children in Shanghai's Changning district took up the case last week.