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(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-03-08 15:19

Universal Studios plans Beijing park

Universal Studios confirmed on Thursday that the company will build a Hollywood movie theme park in Beijing. The park will be its third Asian location after Singapore and Osaka and will cover about 20.6 hectares of land in Beijing's eastern suburb of Tongzhou. Construction is scheduled to start in the fourth quarter of this year. The park, which is expected to open in 2018, will cost approximately $2 billion.

Poll favors women's retirement at 55

More than 60 percent of Shanghai residents disapprove of women retiring at the same age as men, a new survey indicates. The survey was released by the Shanghai Statistics Bureau on its website on Thursday. It polled 770 respondents through telephone interviews. Nearly 50 percent of those surveyed said that 55 is the best age for women to retire.

Engaged man breaks into computer rooms

A man was caught ransacking computer rooms at a university campus in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, Modern Express reported on Friday. The man, surnamed Gao, who is a street vendor, said he desperately needed money to pay for a betrothal gift to his girlfriend's father, who has asked for 100,000 yuan ($16,300) to win his approval.

Woman accused of forging certificates

Police detained a woman in Nanjing for forging a notary certificate under her mother-in-law's name, Modern Express reported on Friday. The woman, who said she needed cash to save her stock investments, attempted in January 2013 to sell her mother-in-law's 200-square-meter house for 1.4 million yuan ($228,900), a price much lower than its market value. She claimed to be in possession of all of the valid documents, including a notary certificate of proxy. All of the documents turned out to be invalid.

Buckets that can heal turn out to be trash cans

Plastic buckets believed to promote restorative health effects that have sold well in Cixi were discovered to be trash cans made in Japan, Modern Jinbao reported. Cixi locals thought they could lose weight after drinking fruit juice made in the bucket, which ranged in price from 450 yuan ($74) to 550 yuan. A Chinese researcher studying in Japan, however, found that the buckets were trash cans that are able to hasten the decomposition of rubbish.

Iron Man father's photos go viral on Web

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A man spent a month making an Iron Man costume, wowing not only his son, with whom he had collaborated on the project, but thousands of netizens after photos of the pair went viral on the Internet, Metro Express reported. Huang Chu, 34, who runs a clinic in Yueqing, said he set out to make the costume as a way of spending more time with his son.

Civil servants' pay debated

A proposal by a member of the national committee of the CPPCC to raise civil servant's pay caused huge public discussion.

While civil servants have complained about low income, the public has been dissatisfied with the generous benefits they receive.

Yang Shiqiu, vice director general of the State Administration of Civil Service, said it is important to offer civil servants a good raise while launching systematic regulation of their gray income.

Chen Lihua named richest self-made woman

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Chen Lihua, chairman of the Fuwah International Group, one of Beijing’s largest commercial property developers, has been ranked first on the Richest Self-Made Women in the World 2014 list by the Hurun Report, according to the Beijing News.

Zhang Yin, chairman of Nine Dragons Paper and Wu Yajun, chairman of Longfor Properties, were named second and third richest.