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Boy with HIV assured of care, education

China's health authority has pledged to assure Kun Kun, an 8-year-old boy with HIV/AIDS, the right to medical treatment, a living allowance and a school education.

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Canada is top college choice of Chinese at foreign high schools

Canada is the most popular destination for Chinese students pursuing a high school education overseas, but the United States is catching up, a survey has found.

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Meteorite madness in an alien landscape

Zhao Yuxian always refers to himself as a "hunter", even though his prey doesn't originate on Earth.

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Love and travel in the air on Valentine's Day

Train tickets for Valentine's Day – Feb 14 – are predicted to be the hardest-to-get based on statistics, according to Beijing-based Internet technology company Qihu 360.

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Beijing courting overseas tourists

Beijing is trying to improve the 72-hour visa-free entry policy for international transit passengers to attract more overseas visitors.

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Official suspended after sex photos go viral

An official in east China has been suspended after local disciplinary authorities launched an investigation into photos showing him in compromising positions went viral, the Beijing News reported Tuesday.

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Graft watchdog steps up SOE investigations

The top anti-graft watchdog is to intensify its efforts to uncover corruption in State-owned enterprises.

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Drone shot down in Beijing suburb, operators charged

Three people have been charged with involuntarily endangering public security by flying drones for surveying and mapping, according to a recent report in People's Liberation Army Daily.

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Travel agencies told to regulate tourist

​Tourism authorities will urge travel agencies to monitor tour groups and will explore the use of personal credit reports to identify possible offenders in advance.

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Villagers' startup goat loans improve their lives

Ablimit Tudi, a 67-year-old farmer in Kashgar, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, enthusiastically supports a "gift goat" program that began in the district in December 2011.

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Family of wrongly killed man may get $193,860: media

The parents of a young man wrongly convicted and executed in a controversial 1996 rape and murder case in Inner Mongolia autonomous region are expected to get around 1.2 million yuan ($193,861) in compensation, according to Chinese law, news.163.com reported.

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Massacre survivors, relatives urge Japan to reflect in letter to UN

According to the memorial hall, the survivors and the victims' relatives chose to disclose the news on the Human Rights Day to draw worldwide attention and to urge the Japanese government to reflect on its aggression and the harm it did to the Chinese people.

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Police seek 100 missing brides from Vietnam

Police in Handan, Hebei province, are investigating the disappearance of more than 100 Vietnamese women who married local bachelors, and had been living in local villages. They vanished at the end of November.

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Officials eye another tax hike for cigarettes

The nation's top health authority is pushing for a hike in the cigarette tax and retail prices to curb smoking in China, the world's largest tobacco producer and consumer, a senior health official said.

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Eccentric benefactor Chen seeks Guinness recognition

Chinese philanthropist Chen Guangbiao told an enterprise summit in Ningbo he has applied to a Guinness World Record certificate, guancha.cn reported.

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China rolls out better HIV test

China will introduce RNA-based HIV testing at blood banks across the country to ensure earlier detection of the virus, safer blood supplies and fewer infections through transfusions, a top HIV/AIDS specialist said.

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Father makes Transformer figures for son

A father has made a huge "Optimus Prime" figure for his son as an 18th birthday present.