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What Chinese region hosts women with the largest breasts? The country's netizens might guess, but its biggest e-shopping website, Taobao.com, knows. It's the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, according to an infographic the company produced. Taobao Marketplace created the visual representation from online shoppers' data it collected and analyzed to enable bra companies to tailor advertisements to individual women. It's a reminder that data crunchers are mining our every online activity for marketing gold. And this rising industry is becoming more sophisticated. Box office forecaster Entdigital sifted through social networks to correctly predict China's top-grossing director Feng Xiaogang's 1942 would earn 370-400 million yuan ($60-65 million) - far less than the producers' and public's expectations - a month before it hit screens.
Sunday Digest
China and Vietnam on Saturday pledged to boost comprehensive cooperation, including in the maritime field, with an agreement to address the South China Sea issue.
Sunday Special
You are being spied on. Web-tracking companies are logging your keystrokes, page visits - even the routes your mouse takes across pages, including where you hover and for how long. They are documenting, aggregating and selling your information to Big Data.
Sunday People
It's a typical downtown Kampala scene with crowds shifting between businesses - a clothing store, a furniture shop and a hair salon with loud music blasting through its doors onto the street. But above the bustle, on the second floor of a building, is a very un-Kampala picture that might seem more at home in the center of Beijing - a quiet corner of a community library stacked with Chinese literature, where green tea is served from a teapot emblazoned with a dragon.
Sunday Expat
Growing up in Canada, Ryan Pyle probably never thought he was exotic looking.
Sunday Image
China Daily Sunday edition pays tribute to mothers who have suffered the loss or disability of their only child during the Wenchuan earthquake five years ago.
Sunday Sports
So much for South Beach style. The Miami Heat showed again they can get down and dirty.
Sunday Life
Try to get Maya Lin to talk about her new show at Pace Gallery in New York, and she's more likely to deliver a passionate lecture on the environment. "It's not just that we need to change behavior," Ms. Lin said, striding through Hudson River Park one morning. "Legislation has to happen. Government has to be behind it!"
Lifestyle Trends
LONDON - It is easy to spot John Bercow at the weekly ritual known as Prime Minister's Questions, when Britain's top lawmakers shout and jeer at one another like the ill-behaved schoolboys many once were. Mr. Bercow is the one trying to get them to shut up.
Science and Technology
TRONDHEIM, Norway - In 2005, May-Britt Moser, her husband, Edvard I. Moser, and their colleagues reported the discovery of cells in rats' brains that function as a kind of built-in navigation system that is at the very heart of how animals know where they are, where they are going and where they have been.
Arts and Styles
LOS ANGELES - To portray Olivia Pope, the tough crisis manager at the center of the hit ABC series "Scandal," Kerry Washington is always in gravity-defying heels. How else to make that sexed-up power stalk down the White House corridors?
Sunday Style
Fashion stories about clothes seen on the red carpet tend to focus on those who made a splash: Whose dress was see-through, who has the deepest cleavage, and who dresses like an alien.
Sunday Food
My grandfather used to say the best food in Guangzhou was in Lychee Bay after midnight.
Sunday Kaleidoscope
Meeting with Matthew Gregory in his workspace is a little like being called to the principal's office. The tall Yorkshire native sits behind a large antique oak table, and his wooden guest chairs are the type more commonly found in 19th century school houses - or from the set of Little House on the Prairie.
Travel Special
The past and the present coexist amicably in Nanjing, China's former capital and the current seat of Jiangsu province capital. The city sits at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the rail route from Beijing, a position that helped it become a commercial and political hub - one that is well aware of its history.
