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A total of 1.037 million registered Chinese-character domain names are in use, the China Internet Network Information Center said Thursday.
Long baby names have traditionally not been very popular. In the past 100 years, no name longer than seven characters has ever been the most popular boy name.
A team of researchers has spent four years studying the meanings and origins of almost 50,000 surnames, from the most common to the highly obscure. Some names have been around for many centuries while other more recent arrivals are explained for the first time in the work, the Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, which was published this week.
The Schoenbrunn Zoo here opened online voting on Tuesday for the naming of one of the two twin panda cubs born in August, the zoo stated in a press release.
In recent years, real estate developers and some local governments have chosen names based on locations and buildings overseas, such as "Manhattan" and "Venice". The use has proliferated, causing as much anger as amusement and prompting heated debate on public and online forums.
It is possible for a person to leave "Provence," a residential compound, and on their way to meeting friends at "Manhattan Plaza" shopping mall, they can walk by buildings called Venice or Milan.
China's Internet watchdog has shut and canceled 65 dating and other match-making websites for allowing fraud and spreading obscene content.
British academics recently launched the country's biggest ever study into the impact of same-sex marriage on long-standing wedding traditions.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced here Wednesday that the two giant pandas from China Fu Wa and Feng Yi were given local names of Xing Xing and Liang Liang.
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