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An ethnic minority member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee listens attentively to the opening speeches. Zou Hong / China Daily

Steady and robust

BEIJING - China's top political advisor Jia Qinglin highlighted real economy and a "steady and robust" economic development in a work report delivered on Saturday.

I am woman, hear me roar

Holiday Special

Wukan elects its committee

GUANGZHOU / BEIJING - Thousands of people in a village in South China's Guangdong province went to polls on Saturday to elect a new village committee, several months after staging massive protests over illegal land sales and other issues.

Memorial proposed for Wenzhou crash victims

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Putian in Fujian to be site of next nuclear plant

China still targeting heavy-metal polluters

Hospitals "hardest" hurdles in healthcare reform

'Slight' slip in employment figures recorded

Holiday News and Commentary

Russians go to polls today

MOSCOW - Russians will go to the polls on Sunday to choose a new president from among five candidates.

Putin wouldn't win without democracy

Protesters quiet on eve

Australia brings a showcase of writers

Holiday People

Power of beauty inside & out

This spring, a Chinese organization is looking for women who are more beautiful than the flowers in bloom. This is not a beauty pageant, a reality TV show or a matchmaking activity. It is a search for ordinary Beijing women who are beautiful inside and out. The contest will be launched on Thursday, International Women's Day, and is sponsored by the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation to mark 30 years since Soong Ching-ling's Beijing residence opened its doors to the public.

World Scene

Holiday Image

Road to a record

KATHMANDU - Home to part of Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest in the West, the scenic country of Nepal on Sunday added another height-related superlative - of having the world's shortest man.

Holiday Read

CBA top four fight for title

BEIJING - Finally, here comes the March Madness of the Chinese Basketball Association.

Marc steps out of big brother's shadow

Score Board

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Holiday Trend

China's rugby on a roll

Despite China's significant role in international sports, it is still a comparative novice with only a few professionals and enthusiasts tackling the rugged sport of rugby for China. However, its return to the Olympic family has given it an opportunity to raise its profile in the country.

Coach says build through youth

The week that was

Holiday Business

A colossus in clay sends a message

Any visitor to the New Museum in New York in early February might have thought that the fourth floor was being gutted. It was almost impossible to walk without stepping on a piece of wood or a pile of rubble.

Grocer's daughter became a divisive leader

Status anxiety via status updates

Holiday Travel

Exploring the benefits of reflective eating

Could an eating discipline pioneered by Buddhist monks and nuns help teach us how to get healthy, relieve stress and shed many of the neuroses that we've come to associate with food?

Still chomping after 417.6 million hits

Mead's renaissance: a brew so old it's new

Holiday Sports

For Sinead O'Connor, a fragile peacefulness

COUNTY WICKLOW, Ireland - When Sinead O'Connor opened the door of her home recently, wearing a T-shirt that read "Property of Jesus" and a wool hat low over her blazing eyes, she sounded weary. "I'm very physically tired in a way that I've never been in my life," she said. "It's almost like my blood feels like lead."

Indian star, American everyman

Arts and Styles

Therapy anytime via phone app

In the past few years researchers have been testing simple video-game-like programs aimed at relieving common problems like anxiety and depression. Recent results have been encouraging enough that the programs are being delivered on smartphones " therapy apps that may soon make psychological help accessible anytime, anywhere.

Eyes offer clues to ills of old age

Already squeezed, Australia's koalas are facing a killer disease

Sunday Food

Luxury in the details

Business travelers are the envy of others because they seem to enjoy all the privileges of luxury that shoestring backpackers forgo.

Argo - the culinary voyage

Pure Persian, with style

Sunday Style

Daughters of the yellow emperor

She is walking proof that Chinese women have an almost ageless beauty. Yue-sai Kan has seen a few decades go by, but no one could possibly guess she's over 60, unless they were immigration or tax officers with privileged information.

Sunday Kaleidoscope

Famous forever

Sometimes life as a journalist means you get to meet fascinating people. On one recent day, for example, I find myself standing with China's President Hu Jintao, who cheerfully waves to an eager crowd that seems to admire my good fortune.

IL Divo's pure, Wicked talent

Thank you for the music

City guide

Sunday Travel

'Come before the tourists do'

Most people responded with a mixture of perplexity and bewilderment when I told them where I was going next. Some questioned my sanity. Others simply listed an inventory of personal belongings to bequeath them should I fail to return.

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