Performers operate puppets during a Lingnan puppet show held by the Guangdong Provincial Puppet Art Theater at the Guangzhou Library to mark the 8th national Cultural Heritage Day.
The huge number of retired Chinese enrolling at 'universities for the aged' is imposing immense pressure on the education system for the elderly.
Rana Mitter is determined to shed light on what is often seen in the West - although clearly not in China - as the forgotten war.
Extremism has always been Stephen Chow's game: a confusingly apocalyptic amalgam of gut-wrenching laughter, equally gut-wrenching violence, and feel-good storytelling. While his movies tend to fall loosely under the umbrella of the comedic genre, the growth in intensity of violence across his films has, in recent years, had viewers wincing more and more. While Chow doesn't ever show up on screen in Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, the elements of his directorial handiwork are clear: the linguistic puns, foot-in-mouth jokes, potty humor and increasingly ironic and grandiose CGI action sequences are all there.
The 2013 national entrance examination kicked off on Friday, with 9.12 million students.
More than one-third of US marriages begin with online dating, and those couples may be slightly happier than couples who meet in other ways, a US study said on Monday.
Beijing police and public transport authorities have published a guideline to prevent the sexual harassment of passengers on buses and subways, but experts doubt it will solve the problem at its root.
Graduates all over the world celebrate their graduations.
Performance at the awards ceremony of an overseas student competition in Qingdao, capital of East China's Shandong province, June 2, 2013.
So you set out in life with the name your parents give you and make the most of it, since it's going to follow you around wherever you go.
Most visitors from abroad are tourists to a mystical land, but one man came to marry his sweetheart who had been living and teaching here for more than two decades.
Wushitala township in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is only able to thrive because it is next to the Malan military base.
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