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Breast cancer a factor in Shanghai's low birth rate: doctor

[2014-10-31 14:03]

Shanghai has the highest incidence of breast cancer in the country, which can be linked to the city's low birth rate, health experts said.

City to study disease-smog link

[2014-10-31 14:03]

Shanghai will become the first city in China to study the relationship between air pollution and respiratory disease.

US experts hope China joins trade partnership

[2014-10-31 14:03]

US experts believe that encouraging China to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations will have a huge impact on US-China relations and the future trade framework in the Asia-Pacific region.

Lenovo buys Motorola Mobility

[2014-10-31 14:03]

As the battle for global smartphone supremacy continues into the fourth quarter of 2014, the world's hottest mobile phone market just got hotter.

China rail reps visit California

[2014-10-31 14:03]

A delegation of Chinese government officials and representatives of Chinese high-speed railroad companies met with their California counterparts and the California High-Speed Rail Authority during a reception hosted at the Bay Area Council in San Francisco on Thursday.

Data key in battling business corruption

[2014-10-31 14:03]

Chinese companies can use improving forensic data analytics in the fight against corruption, according to recent research by Ernst & Young.

Reclaiming a piece of history

[2014-10-31 12:51]

The beautiful ancient city of Yangzhou has a glorious and glamorous past, but the storied heart of it has fallen to neglect. The mayor asked a team from Texas to help to turn it around, Chris Davis reports from New York.

Across Americas over the week (Oct 24-30)

[2014-10-31 12:46]

Florence Fang, chairwoman of the Florence Fang Family Foundation and curator of WWII Pacifi c War Memorial Hall in California, gives a "big check" to James T. Whitehead Jr(right), chairman of the Flying Tiger Historical Organization, at a reception honoring the Flying Tigers and WWII veterans at the Chinese consulate in San Francisco on Oct 24.

Staging a ghost story

[2014-10-31 08:04]

There's a Chinese saying that goes: Grave robbers should place a candle in the tomb's southwest corner.

Fright night

[2014-10-31 08:04]

Immense brown spiders squat on orange cupcakes in a bakery window. Australian student Brian Wilson, 10, arrives at his international school with blood streaming out of a gash on his face. Skulls, some of them broken, leer menacingly from shop windows and billboard advertisements.

Olympics bid fuels drive for clean air

[2014-10-31 07:54]

For Nick Ward, a snow-boarding enthusiast from the United States who lives in Beijing, the only issue holding back his skiing passion in the Chinese capital is the heavy haze that sometimes shrouds North China.

The rise of intolerance

[2014-10-31 07:23]

As he walked along the narrow corridors packed with patients, Amir Ali, a physician and director of the Aksu Hospital of Traditional Uygur Medicine, said he's noticed a marked change in the way the local women are dressing recently.

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