• Watermelon Fight Sparks Controversy in SW China

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  About 2,000 college students from southwest China's Chengdu and Chongqing took part in a rare and controversial watermelon fight on Sunday afternoon, according to the Beijing News.

• Sexually abusive guardians must lose rights, top court reiterates

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  The right to be a child's guardian must be removed whenever parents and guardians are found to have sexually abused minors, officials from China's top court said on Tuesday in response to a rise in such cases in recent years.

• Making 'left-behind children' count

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  The government is carrying out the first survey of minors in the rural areas with the aim of ensuring they are safe and have access to education, as Luo Wangshu reports from Huarong, Hunan province.

• Kids Again! Chinese Seniors Celebrate Children's Day

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  International Children's Day is coming! This time, it is not merely a festival for kids, but is also a moment for elderly people with young hearts.

• German Man, Chinese Woman Hold Traditional Chinese Wedding

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  A German groom walks alongside his Chinese bride, who is sitting in a sedan chair, at a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony in Xiangyang, central China's Hubei Province on May 28, 2016. The procession, accompanied by joyous drums and folk dancing, attracted many visitors and locals.

• Young Chinese Woman Earns Entry to 'God-like' University

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  Gao Tian, a graduate from Dulwich International High School in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, was admitted into New York University Abu Dhabi recently and awarded a 1.9 million yuan (U.S.$ 290,000) scholarship, China Youth Daily reports.

• Beijing finalizes preliminarily work on congestion charge

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  Beijing has preliminarily worked out policies on congestion charge for vehicles, reported National Business Daily on Friday.

• Children scale 800-meter cliff on way to school

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  Fifteen children regularly use a rattan ladder to scale an 800-meter cliff on their way to and from boarding school every two weeks in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture in Sichuan province.

• Air Force Wedding Sees Soldier Couples Off to Flying Start

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  A group wedding was held for 13 air force soldiers and their brides at a military camp in Anshan, northeast China's Liaoning Province, on May 21.

• True Love Remains Forever

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  A group of photos of a couple who married 60 years ago touched many Chinese netizens recently. The husband is 99 years old whose wife died last year.