Beijing and neighboring Hebei province's Zhangjiakou have continued fighting to co-host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games since the cities launched their joint bid on Nov 3.
Teams of workers, aided by ships and aircraft, expected to complete on Monday the sea cleanup of 164,000 liters of oil that leaked off South Korea's southern coast, the coast guard said, after a pipeline run by GS Caltex Corp cracked at the weekend.
Philip Seymour Hoffman, one of the leading actors of his generation and winner of an Academy Award for his title role in the film Capote, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment late on Sunday in what a New York police source described as an apparent drug overdose.
Sporting a bushy beard and clutching a can of Coke, a castaway who says he survived more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean arrived in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro on Monday.
Home to several ethnic groups, Hunan province is rich in cultural relics, lending a festive character to its folk rituals for celebrating the Chinese Spring Festival.
Program aims to help kids learn teamwork and have fun, Yao says
Although extracurricular programs, like Yao's hoop school, have helped promote the importance of physical education, overhauling China's focus on exam-oriented education remains a long shot, a sports expert said.
Italian student Giuliano Diaferio had a long-standing wish to teach in China, and his dream has come true.
Top universities have begun moving away from traditional methods of teaching and are promoting their courses globally through Coursera, the worldwide online free course platform.
Universities need to nurture students' passion for science, and provide qualified expertise for the nation's further technological innovation, the president of Hebei Normal University in Shijiazhuang said.
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