• Woman Cooks 'Fairytale Breakfasts' for School Daughter

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  Wang Jing, a 38-year-old woman from southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, has been cooking colorful breakfasts full of creativity each and every school day for her young daughter, ever since she quit her work and became a housewife last year.

• Beijing encounters natural gas supply shortage

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  BEIJING - Beijing experienced a limited natural gas supply on Friday due to temporary scarcity, according to local authorities.

• Man convicted of abducting 22 children executed

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  A man convicted of abducting 22 children has been executed, China's top court said today.

• Unauthorized GM crops face intensified oversight

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  China will further step up the supervision of genetically modified food technologies to prevent commercial cultivation of unauthorized varieties, a senior rural affairs official said.

• Russian Woman Becomes Volunteer for Spring Festival Travel Rush in Jilin

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  In September 2015, the first high-speed train was put into operation in Hunchun. The city located at the border of China, Russia and the DPRK embraced for the first time the railway travel rush of the Spring Festival recently. A blonde volunteer also appeared at the Hunchun Railway Station. She was Maria from Russia.

• Generous Chinese Couple Divert Wedding Fund to Help Single Moms

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  A young couple in Chaozhou, south China's Guangdong Province donated 1.8 million yuan (U.S. $ 270,000) originally set aside for their wedding ceremony, to help 450 single moms in the city.

• Top medical authority says appointment scalpers will be punished

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  China's top medical authority will investigate and punish the scalping of hospital bookings, a spokesperson announced on Wednesday. A video clip went viral on China's social network this week recording a young girl weeping inconsolably while claiming that hospital staff colluded with scalpers.

• Shortage of donkey skin breeds TCM fakes

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  JINAN - A shortage of donkey hides used to produce the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) "ejiao" has resulted in a deluge of imitations, with around 40 percent likely to be fake.

• Officials step up moves against 'zombie meat'

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  A crackdown on the illegal trade in smuggled frozen meat is being intensified after reports of expired and rotten supplies being brought into the country and served in restaurants.

• Holiday ritual offers a touch of home

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  As Christmas is to Westerners, Chinese New Year - the first day of the first lunar month - is regarded as the most important festival in China.