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2013-11-12

Best-selling writer and professional rally driver Han Han published photos of his 3-year-old daughter on Sina Weibo, arousing strong reverberations among his fans.

Best-selling writer and professional rally driver Han Han published photos of his 3-year-old daughter on Sina Weibo, arousing strong reverberations among his fans. Online interaction between Han Han and other celebrities attracted extra attention, with actress Yao Chen joking her 3-month-old son will marry the good looking girl in fulture. The photos were forwarded 154,313 times.

An official in South China's Guangdong province gave 1 million yuan to a temple to have his name carved on a Buddhist stone, according to prosecutors. Huang Zhiguang, former Party secretary of Shantou city, was tried on Monday on allegations of accepting 5.5 million yuan in bribes, and prosecutors in the trial found that he paid to have his name carved on a temple stone, New Express Daily reported.

Civil servants in Zhengzhou, capital of Central China's Henan province, were caught working part-time as unlicensed motorcycle taxi drivers. Such drivers can earn up to 300 to 400 yuan a day, which is higher than the average income of civil servants, the local Dahe Daily reported. Many people use unlicensed motorcycle taxis because the city's traffic is always jammed with buses and cars, said the report.

China's family-planning policy may have reduced the country’s population growth by 400 million in the past four decades, a spokesman for the National Health and Family Planning Commission said on Monday. Mao Qun'an said that if not for the family-planning policy, China’s current population would be 1.7 billion to 1.8 billion, Xinhua News Agency reported.

A woman in East China's Zhejiang province spent 20.5 million yuan buying a diamond on the Internet on Monday. Meanwhile, about 66 million pieces of disposable diapers were sold in nine hours on Monday, enough to absorb all the water in six West Lakes, Dahe Daily reported.

Researchers at Fudan University claimed they have decoded the DNA of Cao Cao, a politician and general from the Th ree Kingdoms period (AD 208-280), Xinmin.cn reported. In 2009, a large tomb was discovered in Anyang, Henan province, which local archeologists claimed belonged to Cao. Many questioned its authenticity and the university team subsequently performed a DNA study.

A post office with a so-calle"dream mail" service will be established in Beijing, postal authorities said. The service will allow residents to send letters that will not be delivered until 2020, Beijing Youth Daily reported on Monday. The post office will start the service within half a year after the office is built in the city's Xizhimen neighborhood.

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