• Talented Teen Runs Annual English Summer School for Rural Kids

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  Huang Ailing, a 14-year-old middle school student studying in Canada, has been a voluntary teacher for three consecutive years, by giving English lessons to her peers in her summer holidays, in Dangchang County, northwestern China's Gansu Province.

• Elderly Couple Travel Through Their Retirement

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  Luo Daoru and Jiang Meiya, a senior couple in east China’s Zhejiang Province, have recently become a hit online after publishing a book about their road trips.

• Attacks on Chinese student at Paris metro stirs concerns

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  News of a female student being abused and assaulted at Paris metro five days ago has stirred concerns among Chinese Internet users.

• Female rides subway, buses wearing facial mask

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  Don't get time for beauty treatment due to busy schedule? Well, here's a female who has found an ingenious way to squeeze time.

• Calling cards are lucrative tool used by pimps

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  The use of calling cards to promote prostitution in Beijing hotels is an easy and lucrative way to reach clients, a woman engaged in so-called entertainment work was quoted as saying in a report by Beijing News on Monday.

• Hawking joins Sina Weibo and is instant hit

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  British physicist Stephen Hawking has opened an account on Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo, amassing more than 2 million followers within 24 hours.

• Beijing's Zhongguancun Street gets facelift fund

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  BEIJING - Beijing plans to set up an 8-billion- yuan (about $1.53 billion) fund for a facelift for Zhongguancun Street, a key thoroughfare in northwestern Beijing often called "China's Silicon Valley."

• Stricken Mother's 25 Yr Search for Missing Son

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  Yang Suhui, 56, from Zhejiang Province, eastern China, has been searching for her lost son named Xu Jianfeng for over 25 years in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, arousing widespread attention across the nation.

• Young Daughter's Diary Echoes Country-Wide Concerns over Absentee Fathers

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  A diary called My Father, written by a 9-year-old Chinese girl who misses her father whilst he is busy at work, has been shared widely online, prompting discussion about absentee parents.

• 19-year-old hit by train while taking selfie, dies on the spot

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  A woman taking a selfie near a railway track was hit by a train and died on the spot in Foshan on Saturday, reported citygf.com.