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Customers losing appetite for quick-grow chickens

[2013-01-07 07:41]

Sun Xin never cooks. Her heavy workload means she always eats out or orders takeout, and the 25-year-old IT engineer in Zhongguancun, Beijing, has been a loyal consumer of KFC products since her student days.

Inside track from a former farmer

[2013-01-07 07:41]

Zhao Zhili, 48, is president of a small English training school.

Antibiotics: friend or foe?

[2013-01-07 07:41]

Antibiotics have been used on poultry since the 1940s to prevent and treat diseases, although some experts contend that this poses risks to humans as bacterial strains can develop stronger resistance to the drugs.

Hoping to see the light of traffic rules

[2013-01-04 08:12]

Speed up or slow down? That was the question Wang Xueliang pondered as he approached the traffic lights.

Best foot forward

[2013-01-04 08:12]

Supplementary to the new regulation on China's roads, Hubei province has ruled that drivers must give way to pedestrians, many of whom said they look forward to seeing more provinces adopt the rule.

Lights and rights

[2013-01-04 08:12]

In the United States, there are no national traffic guidelines, but the sequence for traffic lights is usually red, green, yellow and back to red, although some are simply red-green-red.

Overworked traffic wardens face Sisyphus-like challenge

[2013-01-01 07:50]

Despite a series of measures taken by authorities in Beijing to ease traffic problems in the capital, wardens are still facing a tough challenge.

Island offers a wealth of opportunities

[2012-12-31 07:43]

It seems that even the recent freezing weather has been unable to give investors from the Chinese mainland cold feet about pouring their money into Taiwan.

Funeral parlors consider enhancing final farewell

[2012-12-28 07:26]

Tom Chiang was a funeral director for a decade in Taiwan before he moved to the Chinese mainland and began training workers at a funeral home in Chongqing.

How the new high-speed railway came on track

[2012-12-27 07:11]

After graduating from Zhengzhou Railway Vocational & Technical College in 2008, Luo Fengguang joined the train division of Zhengzhou Railway Bureau to receive tuition as a maintenance inspector for bullet trains.

Price determines travelers' choices

[2012-12-27 07:11]

"The Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway will connect the three cities in which I spend most of my time," said Man Zi, a 25-year-old dance teacher, who moved from Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, nine years ago and now runs a dance club in Guangdong province. To improve her dancing skills, Man has tuition from teachers in a number of cities, with Guangzhou, Wuhan and Beijing accounting for the lion's share of her trips.

No child's play raising children of parents working overseas

[2012-12-26 07:14]

Wearing a small bib patched with different-colored pieces of cloth, his cheeks roughened by long exposure to the cold winter weather, 17-month-old Huang Jie from Guanqi village, Guantou township, Fujian province, appears no different from any of the other local children.

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