• How to Handle and Report Domestic Violence on Beijing’s Streets

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  Last week, at around 2.30am I was passing through my regular short-cut between Guozijian and Fangjia Hutong, and saw a woman being slapped in the face by a man, as she was backing up down an alley, crying, and pleading for him to stop.

• Attention Girls: There's a New Completely Vacuous Method to Check If You're Slim Enough

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  As we think there can't be any more ways to demoralize women, here comes another one on weibo.com. Someone with entirely too much time on their hands had created another means to measure if girls are slim "enough" – the “I have an A4 waist” (我有A4腰) challenge, a topic that accrued a swift 30 million hits and more than 34,500 comments by 9am, March 16.

• Palace Museum sMore students returning after overseas studies

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  Both the number of Chinese students heading overseas to study and the number of those returning to China after finishing their studies abroad have increased in comparison with the year before, the Ministry of Education said on Tuesday.

• Palace Museum sees souvenir sales boom

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  Beijing's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, announced on Wednesday that its sales of souvenirs in 2015 surpassed 1 billion yuan ($154 million).

• More consumers buy overseas goods online via haitao

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  More consumers are buying overseas goods online through haitao purchasing services.

• Zootopia sloth, foxes shoot to stardom

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  Hollywood buddy-cop comedy Zootopia continued its domination at the Chinese box office, earning more than 824 million yuan ($126.3 million) this week, and in social media, where Flash, the three-toed sloth, and a pair of foxes have captured the public's imagination.

• Top Go player ponders AlphaGo matchup

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  The world's top weiqi (or Go) player, Ke Jie, believes he has got what it takes to beat the artificial intelligence program AlphaGo, which has just thrashed South Korean grandmaster Lee See-dol, but Ke admits his chances of winning are shrinking as AlphaGo "learns" at a stunning pace.

• Food delivery start-up faces fines, investigation following expose

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  Regulators have urged online retail services to exercise due diligence in reviewing vendor eligibility and operating standards.

• Two senior officials subject of graft probe

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  Two senior officials have been placed under investigation for suspected corruption as the nationwide anti-graft campaign is picking up steam.

• Charity law aims for culture of giving

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  Chinese lawmakers approved the country's first charity law on Wednesday at the closing meeting of the annual session of the National People's Congress.