• Controversy over business-class seats on Shenzhen subway

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  A trial run of a service designed to offer more comfortable subway travel has instead sparked massive controversies in the southern Chinese metropolis Shenzhen, with some blaming it for creating an artificial divide among passengers.

• Olympic swimmers spark interest in cupping therapy

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  Taoists at the Jinding Temple of Luoyang, Henan province, offer free cupping services to local residents

• CEO courses for 3-year-old kids: grooming future elites or glorified babysitting?

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  "Hand us a kid, we give you back a future leader," said a poster outside an education training agency in Guangzhou, Guangdong province

• 'Sister Plaster' Alerts Metro Users to Dangers of 'Phubbing'

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  A woman nicknamed "Sister Plaster" caused an online sensation on August 15 by giving out small plasters to passengers on the Beijing subway and calling on people to refrain from using their cellphones too much.

• Young Policewoman Saves Man's Life after 3-Hour Talk on Phone

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  A 22-year-old policewoman from the district of Longquanyi in southwest China's Sichuan Province recently made great efforts to save a 40-year-old man's life through a three-hour talk on the phone when she was on duty at midnight.

• Cycling gold medalists' helmets take the spotlight

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  As Chinese female track cyclists Gong Jinjie and Zhong Tianshi ducked their heads and sprinted to their history-making gold medal in the Olympic Velodrome in Rio de Janeiro, the faces of Peking Opera characters painted on their helmets also came into the spotlight for millions of spectators and viewers.

• Eighth typhoon of year hits Guangdong

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  Typhoon Dianmu, the eighth typhoon this year, made landfall in Leizhou, Guangdong province, around 3:40 pm on Thursday, battering southern coastal regions with gales and torrential rains.

• China strengthens efforts to clean up 'dirty money'

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  The nation's financial authorities are tackling money laundering by improving the mechanisms used to track suspect flows of funds. Wang Yanfei reports.

• Ningxia grants women paid menstrual leave

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  Ningxia Hui autonomous region in northwest China will allow female workers to require paid menstrual leave, reported nxnews.net on Tuesday.

• Woman Rescued after 38 Hours Afloat in Sea

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  A 32-year-old Shanghai woman who fell off a cruise ship that was returning to China from Japan was miraculously saved after floating in the sea for more than 38 hours. She even fell asleep for awhile, according to her father.