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Hot words: Contingency Reserve Arrangement. The BRICS group agreed to form a Contingency Reserve Arrangement, a $100 billion fund to be managed by the member countries' central banks.

Bilingual: Women taking birth-control pills prefer men with more effeminate looks - a trait associated with faithfulness and stability, a new study has revealed.

Photo: People dressed up for the Easter Bonnet Parade in New York City on Sunday.

Culture: For a US citizen living in China, one of the things he finds completely different is the vast number of local dialects throughout the country.

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News talk: Jinwan District First Elementary School in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, is under fire for charging second-graders 1 yuan (16 US cents) and up to take a nap in the classroom.

Life in China: For more than 20,000 Africans who are permanent residents of Guangzhou, their dreams are simple: working and earning money, and getting married and having a family.

(China Daily 04/02/2013 page2)