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Zhejiang province's Jiaxing Shuguang Cosmetic Surgery Hospital's physician prepares an artificial insert for a nose job. China ranked first in Asia and third in the world, after the United States and Brazil, in the number of cosmetic procedures conducted in 2011. Provided to China Daily

Wang Lijun testifies against Bo Xilai

The former vice-mayor and police chief of Chongqing convicted of defection, Wang Lijun, testified in court on Saturday that fallen senior official Bo Xilai had allegedly tried to cover up a murder case involving Bo's wife, Bogu Kailai.

More than skin deep

Sunday Talk

Sunday Digest

Sunday Special

Hooked on the scalpel

When most people think of addiction, they think of substance abuse - not plastic surgery.

Sunday People

Measuring up

Creating menswear is more complicated than making clothes for women, says fashion designer Ji Wenbo, who combines Asian aesthetics with European luxury to produce minimalist garments. "It seems simple, but on closer inspection, intricate work has actually been applied," Ji says. He's the first Chinese designer to be included in the official calendar of the men's section of Milan Fashion Week.

Reporter's return to BBQ business sizzles online

World Scene

Sunday Expat

Road less traveled

Tony Wheeler, co-founder of the world's largest travel guidebook publisher Lonely Planet, found his book on China often misleading when he traveled in the country in 2006.

Comoros honors Guangzhou docs for campaign against malaria

Bringing winds of change to China's energy mix

Sunday Image

Battling the bulge

Underneath the scorching sunshine in Zhengzhou, Henan province, 34 overweight children sweat profusely, gasping for air as they jog. They contribute to a shocking new statistic in the world's most populous country. According to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of obese people under the age of 18 has reached 120 million in 2013, and the number is on the rise. Summer vacation for obese children is not a time to laze around anymore. They are now turning up at "obesity camps" to change their future.

Art Special

Artistic frontiers

Feng Yuan is a tireless explorer in the world of art, a Chinese painting master who blazed a way of his own.

Sunday Life

A gadget-free getaway

To break a tech addiction, a camp with simpler diversions

Different ways to speak

The fuzzy friend in the yard: a llama

Lifestyle Trends

What men are not wearing now in New York

Once, it was considered de rigueur for New Yorkers to wear a hat and gloves in town. Now dress codes have devolved to the point where folks wear fleecy slippers on the subway, flip-flops to the ballet, running tights for every occasion, pajamas as daywear and, recently, very little at all.

Questionable foods and pricey meals

Science and Technology

Link between autism and a cancer gene

Researchers studying two seemingly unrelated conditions - autism and cancer - have unexpectedly converged on a surprising discovery. Some people with autism have mutated cancer or tumor genes that apparently caused their brain disorder.

In science, a deluge of data

Tracing warming through past sea levels

Arts and Styles

A comedian returns, with moodier stories

In 2005, Dave Chappelle was merely the hottest comedian in America. Then he left his job and became a far more singular cultural figure: A renegade to some, a lunatic to others, but most of all, an enigma.

Shaping metal, and hard words

Korean cram schools aim at K-Pop stardom

Sunday Food

Please eat the exhibits

A cuisine style considered so important that locals created a museum for it has to be worth trying. Cai Guobin, a 37-year-old from Huai'an, Jiangsu province, is executive chef with China Huaiyang Cuisine Cultural Museum. He is working as a guest chef at a Huaiyang food event at the Red Chamber Chinese Restaurant, China World Summit Wing Beijing until Aug 25. "Huaiyang cuisine has several hundred years of history. The local government places a lot of importance on it. More than 10 gourmet festivals have been held," says Cai, who has worked for 21 years as a cook.

Being cool at the bar with coconut water

Eatbeat

Sunday Style

Ladygaga every icon

'I want to know. What do you see?" asks Lady Gaga, her voice carrying a combination of genuine curiosity, press-savvy flirtation and inherent provocation. The image in question is the cover of Gaga's new single Applause, the first from her forthcoming third studio album Artpop, to be released on Nov 11 through Interscope records.

Sunday Kaleidoscope

Writing on the wall

Shanghai's graffiti artists are given new legal canvasses as municipal tourism authorities list spray-painted walls among the city's official travel attractions. Wu Ni reports in Shanghai.

Artworks paint a picture of change

Swimming through the sky, dancing down to earth

Sunday Travel

Super Markets

My friends often mock me for being overweight. That is, I am the girl you see scrambling at an airport check-in counter trying to redistribute the goods she has bought so that her suitcase's load doesn't tip the airline scales. I've even brought home a Bohemian crystal chandelier from Prague - hand carried, of course. When it comes to shopping during my travels, I tend to gravitate toward the local markets to get a microcosm of my destination as well as the best deals.

Lucky 13 becomes the place to be

Airline news and deals

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