• Inspection set on food safety enforcement

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  China's top legislature will inspect enforcement of the new food safety law in 10 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions from mid-April to the end of May.

• 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.

• Money incentives used to cut PM2.5

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  Zhengzhou, Henan province, which is among the 10 Chinese cities with the worst air pollution in 2015, has begun imposing heavy fines on its districts and counties of 500,000 yuan ($77,300) for each unit per cubic meter.

• 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.

• Shanghai toughens rule on auto plates

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  A ban on temporary out-of-city license plates on cars operating within Shanghai's Outer Ring Road could put drivers who do not have permanent plates off the road, according to auto industry insiders.

• 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.

• China to tighten rules on baby formula

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  BEIJING -- China will tighten its regulation on baby formula after a recent scandal, an official statement said on Wednesday.

• 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.