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Source: Global Times Published: May 23, 2013 20:53
“Homosexuality is an indecent perversion, a hindrance to personal psychological health and purification of society, and a hotbed for the transmission of AIDS …” Zhang Yanxi, 22, was shocked to read this description of homosexuality in a Chinese textbook while preparing for an exam last year.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 23, 2013 20:38
Some people in the Chinese capital had thought that they had seen it all. That is, until they saw a stark naked man dashing through the street at midnight, carrying a giant cross over his shoulder.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 22, 2013 21:08
Yang Shimeng, a 25-year-old space enthusiast in Tianjin, is frustrated by worries that his dream of landing on Mars may never be realized.
In April, his attention was drawn to a Dutch program called Mars One Project that aimed to send a crew to the Red Planet by 2023. Even more thrillingly, the pro...
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Source: Global Times Published: May 21, 2013 20:33
The average office space per person for the administrative committee of Wudangshan Special Economic Zone for Tourism in Hubei Province is 453 square meters, roughly 25 times the national standard, according to a recent investigative report by China Business Journal.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 20, 2013 20:23
It came as a shock to Tung Sungchen when the 70-year-old man accused her in March of being a fraud after she refused to have sex with him. He apparently had very different expectations of what a “sex therapist” did from Tung, 38, a certified therapist who runs the SungFul Sexual Health C...
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Source: Global Times Published: May 19, 2013 19:13
The two-floor grey building near Shanghai University in Baoshan district looks like any other downtown office block. But the armed police around it, and the locked doors, show its real role as one of the most secretive places in the municipality, where Party officials accused of corruption or discip...
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Source: Global Times Published: May 16, 2013 19:33
Climbing up concrete steps past modest bungalows scattered along the pathway, up to a barren hillside covered with weeds, on a cramped clearing where a shabby unmarked monument tainted by scrawls stands, a white-haired man shakes his head and sighs, “No one even cares about this place.”
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Source: Global Times Published: May 16, 2013 19:33
Luo Jianming never expected his first attempt at registering a non-governmental organization (NGO) would be so successful. The entire registration process took less than two months, despite warnings from others that the procedure could take forever.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 15, 2013 20:28
With a very small number of followers, practically no clergymen, and without official recognition, the Orthodox Church’s situation in China is a precarious one. Researchers predict that the religion, imported from Russia, could disappear altogether in China within 15 years.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 14, 2013 19:23
It takes about two hours driving on a bumpy road from Fuzhou, capital of Fujian Province, to get to Tianhu village.
The village is under Dahu township, Minhou county, and is five kilometers away from the ancient Xuefeng Temple. People moved in and formed a village about 300 years ago, but now it i...
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Source: Global Times Published: May 13, 2013 19:58
Every so often, Zhou Haisong feels that she is weighed down by negative feelings and depression.
“I’m really frustrated, and don’t know what to do sometimes. I don’t make any progress on my cases, and I am close to being in self-denial,” Zhou told the Global Times in a telephone interview.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 12, 2013 19:03
On the evening of April 18, Xu Shubin was walking near his home when he spotted some clouds that led him to believe an earthquake was imminent. He quickly took pictures of them and posted them on his microblog, predicting a 7.0-magnitude quake would hit western China within 36 hours.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 09, 2013 19:33
While the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies celebrated 150 years of humanitarian work around the world on Wednesday, the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) is facing its most serious crisis after coming to the country 109 years ago.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 09, 2013 19:28
Between his Welsh accent and fluent Chinese, Iain Inglis, the nearly 35-year-old freelancer in tropical Sanya, Hainan Province, told the story of how he experienced the ups and downs along with China's political changes after becoming known as a “Red Song Talent” on popular television shows.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 08, 2013 19:28
In ancient China, a petitioner would beat a drum before the court to seek redress for an injustice. Now, it seems bringing a foreigner will ensure that your grievances are heard.
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