China will shiver as Spring Festival begins, with a strong cold snap sweeping across the country on Wednesday, dumping heavy snow on most southern regions and challenging the millions who are traveling home.
A man who designed and sold software that gave users an unfair advantage when purchasing train tickets online has been arrested, police said.
Railway workers across China are gearing up to handle the busiest days during the Spring Festival travel peak.
Liu Jing has decided not to go home to see her family for Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, this year. Instead, she will celebrate the festival in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, thousands of miles from her hometown.
Some welcome opportunity to beat heavy crowds, relax among friends
Usually, when people decide to live in a foreign country, two contrasting factors are uppermost in their minds - work opportunities and distance from family and friends.
Shanghai has the largest expat population on the Chinese mainland. Government statistics show that approximately 173,000 called the city home at the end of 2012, an increase of almost 7 percent on the previous year.
"Before (I came to) China, I used to do ice hockey and jogging, but since I came to Beijing, I don't do them anymore."
Every few weeks, Lu Jinhua's family meets for dinner at a restaurant close to her home in Beijing's Chaoyang district. But the happy mealtime almost always ends with an unhappy scene: Her children will insist that Lu leaves the table before she can embarrass them by asking to take the leftover food home in takeaway bags.
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