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Good intentions
Source: Global Times Published: December 16, 2011 22:19
Cao Mingxiu set out to do good, but today, she looks like the one in need of rescue. Over the past two years, her attempts to apply business strategies to her philanthropic goals have dragged her and her family into a nightmare of debt.
HIV's 50 up club
Source: Global Times Published: December 15, 2011 21:08
Older men buying sex are putting themselves at risk, as CDC statistics show HIV-infected elderly people are taking a bigger ratio of all the infected.
Keeping the past alive
Source: Global Times Published: December 14, 2011 20:23
Many writers have started writing detailed, personal stories of the past that are often missing or neglected by official history textbooks.
A convoy of thousands
Source: Global Times Published: December 13, 2011 20:27
Thousands of coal trucks are stranded on the road from northwestern coal fields to urban centers in the east, as temperatures continue to drop and the furnaces of North China growl for fuel.
Fighting over world peace
Source: Global Times Published: December 12, 2011 22:12
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin didn't show up to receive this year's Confucius Peace Prize in Beijing on Friday.
Valued advisors
Source: Global Times Published: December 11, 2011 23:45
A trend among China's central and local governments to invite foreigners as consultants. Many of them serve as senior consultants for provincial governors or mayors.
Spamming the masses
Source: Global Times Published: December 11, 2011 18:48
Chinese police have busted several cases in which suspects sell personal information of hundreds of thousands of people that they acquired through illegal means.
Daring cheats
Source: Global Times Published: December 09, 2011 00:21
The applications of about 5,300 families for Beijing's affordable housing between January 2010 and this month were illegitimate, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development announced on its Sina microblog on Wednesday.
From city to country
Source: Global Times Published: December 08, 2011 21:28
From 1968-80, about 17 million young Chinese went to the countryside to work alongside farmers, releasing pressure on employment and population.
A grave matter
Source: Global Times Published: December 08, 2011 21:26
Chinese traditions to "return the dead body to earth and find peace" remains a powerful and widely held concept that is in direct conflict with the country’s cremation regulations.
More exams
Source: Global Times Published: December 08, 2011 00:21
Rao Fan found himself at a loss before beginning the College English Test (CET) Level 4, an English language proficiency test that Chinese college students are required to take before graduation. He could not understand a string of sentences, despite cramming over 5,000 English words during the four...
China's political seasons revs up
Source: Global Times Published: December 07, 2011 20:38
The 80 million Party members have geared up to select 2,270 delegates for the 18th CPC National Congress next year, which will choose a new General Secretary who is destined to become the country's next president.
Gender in politics
Source: Global Times Published: December 07, 2011 00:45
Heated discussion over the rise of female government leaders has begun in China since authorities urged government departments at all levels to select more women for leadership roles through ongoing nationwide local elections.
Leaving the desert
Source: Global Times Published: December 06, 2011 19:43
Nearly 350,000 residents from 1,655 villages in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in Northwest China are moving from desolate mountain areas to larger urban areas.
A cushy job for life
Source: Global Times Published: December 05, 2011 20:35
The prestige of working for a central government department is a key attraction for the nearly 1 million civil service exam takers.
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