• Rich Chinese splurge on sportswear as luxury's lustre dims

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  HONG KONG - GPS sport watches, compression leggings and hydration packs are the new must-haves for wealthy Chinese, pumping up the multi-billion dollar sportswear industry at a time when China's elite are reining in spending on more traditional luxury brands.

• Hospitals to require advance bookings

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  Patients with nonemergency conditions will soon have to make advance appointments before going to a major hospital in Beijing.

• China to ease permanent residence application process for foreigners

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  BEIJING -- China will ease the permanent resident application process for foreigners, according to a circular issued by the general offices of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council.

• More youth involved in drug trade

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  The number of youths using illegal drugs increased last year, accounting for 62 percent of registered users nationwide, the 2015 China Drug Situation Report shows.

• Moms cry out for baby-care upgrade

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  Experts and the public have called for improved baby-care rooms, sparked by a celebrity's online account of her recent embarrassing experience.

• Legendary lane attracts thousands

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  Top official's visit and prime spot on New Year TV gala cements popularity and story of historic walkway

• Spring Festival brings rural property mini-boom

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  BEIJING -- For many Chinese rural migrant workers, the Spring Festival holiday is a chance to buy their own home where they can eventually settle down in small counties.

• Ties shine during Lunar New Year in US

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  Perhaps someday the growing camaraderie between China and the US over Lunar New Year could spill into the political arena.

• Failing eco-protection bureaus in the firing line

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  China's revised law on pollution control allows a wider range of litigants to bring cases against government departments that neglect their duties. Cao Yin reports.

• China's last gun-toting tribe

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  Some 2,500 residents of Basha Miao ethnic village in remote Congjiang County of southwest China's mountainous Guizhou Province continue to preserve the Miao people's traditional way of life passed down from generation to generation for more than 2,000 years.