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China's cab drivers are having to pay a price with heavy congestion in the cities, hefty rental charges, growing numbers of private-car owners and long, tiring hours on the roads to make ends meet. Photos Provided to China Daily
"Nuclear safety touches everyone's lives on both sides of the Taiwan Straits and is related to the environment we all share."
Sunday Digest
XI'AN - The International Horticultural Exposition 2011 Xi'an ended on Saturday after 178 colorful days in the capital of Shaanxi province in Northeast China.
Sunday Special
Like most illegal cab drivers, Wang - who refuses to share his given name - wants out of his trade. But this is the only living the Beijinger has been able to find since he was suddenly laid off in 2007 and then spent a year afterward looking for work.
Sunday People
You would think a zoologist who spends months alone in the wilderness would have an anxiety attack in crowded Hong Kong. But that's not the case with large predator specialist and television presenter Dave Salmoni. The big and burly Canadian, who was in Asia to talk up his latest animal program, World's Deadliest Towns (for the Discovery Channel), is enjoying a beer among the skyscrapers and looking forward to some Cantonese roast goose for dinner. Salmoni is the rare breed who is as comfortable in the concrete and the African jungle. "People are always shocked," he says. "They say 'oh, you must hate the city.' But I like people and I like animals too. It's natural for me to want both but I don't think it's something other people understand."
Sunday Expat
Her pictures can be found as far afield as the US and Canada, Europe, the Middle East, South Africa and Southeast Asia. Now artist Angi (real name Agnes Nadkarni) is starting to carve out a name for herself in China, having recently been the featured artist of the month at the HongYi Gallery in the Sanlitun area of Beijing.
Sunday Image
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, then thousands of pictures had many more stories to tell last week as the "Zoom-In on Poverty" global photo contest came to a close.
Sunday Sports
A look at the five previous World Cup finals:
Sunday Food
Throughout the cities and towns of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, it's common to see naan bakeries by the street side and a queue waiting patiently for freshly made flatbread.
