• Authority watchful to avert risk of Zika virus

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  China may be at risk of being affected by the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is spreading in the Americas, but the possibility of it spreading here is low as there are fewer mosquitoes in winter and spring, the country's top health authority said on Friday.

• 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.

• Over 370m mobile phones harmed by fraud in 2015

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  The number of users whose mobile phones were infected by malicious programs is still rising and the mobile terminals have become a main channel of fraud, according to a report issued by China's leading security software provider on Friday.

• 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.

• App use for public fees to cover more cities

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  Residents in more than 70 percent of Chinese cities will soon be able to use popular smartphone apps to pay their taxes and electricity bills, tech consultancy Gartner predicted in its latest report.

• 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.