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[2017-07-25 07:19]

Zones to highlight Made in China 2025

Gansu girls still calling the shots

[2017-07-24 07:09]

In most regions of China, women leave home to get married and then follow their husbands. However, in many parts of Kangxian county in the northwestern province of Gansu, the reverse is true: traditionally, the groom moves in with his parents-in-law and his children take his wife's family name.

I'm happy for my children

[2017-07-24 07:09]

Xie Zhijun, a resident of Songgou village, Kangxian, Gansu province

Bridegrooms, bamboo and buckets of water

[2017-07-24 07:09]

In some parts of China, it is traditional for bridegrooms to leave their homes and live with their wife's family.

Center gives hope to Russian parents

[2017-07-24 07:09]

On Mariia Kilian's desk is an enormous stack of notebooks labeled with the names of dozens of Russian children with cerebral palsy.

Panda keeper bears all for his 'friends'

[2017-07-24 07:09]

Zhang Xusheng will retire from Hangzhou Zoo after 38 years as a panda keeper at the end of this month.

Around China

[2017-07-24 07:09]

Chongqing

It's time Japan stopped dreaming TPP

[2017-07-22 07:31]

Negotiators from the 11 remaining members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement held a meeting in Japan's hot-spring resort town of Hakone last week where they decided to push ahead with the agreement without any significant changes.

Heavier penalty needed to deter molesters

[2017-07-22 07:31]

A man nearly slit the throat of a woman on a bus during the morning rush hour on Monday in Beijing's Tongzhou district after the latter slapped him for "touching her inappropriately". The incident was just one of the many cases of sexual harassment in recent times, which have seriously hurt the victims' legal rights and interests, shaken the people's sense of security, and broken the normal social order.

Onus on US to take peninsula off the boil

[2017-07-22 07:31]

The government of the Republic of Korea has offered to talk with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to ease animosities along the military demarcation line and resume the reunions of families separated by the Korean War (1950-53). If the talks were to happen they would be the first between the two sides since December 2015.

Quantum leap in 'spooky action at a distance'

[2017-07-22 07:31]

The distinguished American physicist Richard Feynman once said that if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't. The science behind the laws that govern the sub-atomic world has evolved over more than a century, revealing that the smallest particles behave outside the realm of classical physics.

Instrument makers dance to a traditional tune

[2017-07-21 09:07]

Instrument makers dance to a traditional tune

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