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A researcher prepares medicine at a laboratory in Nanjing University in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in this April 29, 2011 file photo.

A staff worker stacks photocopy books of the Wenyuan Chamber edition of the Imperial Collection of Four in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, May 26, 2012.

The petition by 300 hundred households from Zhouguantun Village, Botou City, Hebei Province calling for the release of Falun Gong practitioner Wang Xiaodong has shaken up China's top leadership circle.

Getting to know Shanghai's unsung delta cousins http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/Supplement/2012/05/28/Getting+to+know+Shanghais+unsung+delta+cousins AS a native of Shanghai, I always thought of the Yangtze River Delta as a region of light textile production, cheap labor and factories churning out goods under foreign brand names.

Han Zhong Gate: Here is the gate itself. It was a part of the walls during the Ming dynasty and now serves as a public park.

With the FDA's warning to dog owners about Chinese-made chicken treats that have sickened pets, Houston pet owner Tom Blakeman said he's not about to take a chance when it comes to his 12-year-old miniature dachshund, Hot Dog.

A woman fights with chengguan police as they dismantle part of her small restaurant and confiscate equipment that she stored on the sidewalk outside of her shop in the Fuzi Miao tourist market in central Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Trina Solar Ltd. led declines in the most-traded Chinese equities in the U.S. on speculation the solar-panel maker will disappoint investors for a fifth quarter.

D&W Fine Pack CEO Mark Staton told Plastics Today growth potential is "promising" regarding the company's recent purchase of the thermoforming division of Clear Lam Packaging.

Bella, a 2-year-old pug, died last fall after her owner, Robin Pierre, said she ate Waggin' Train chicken jerky treats.

Some 1,000 senior Chinese executives and entrepreneurs have enrolled in the LAHAV Executive Education program at Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Management, the Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported.

Wang Li and her husband pose with chairman and co-founder of Smile Train Charles Wang on the Bund, Shanghai.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians need not be concerned following a case in Nanjing, China where a consumers finger turned blue after buying leek, believed to have been sprayed with copper sulphate to keep the vegetable fresh.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 18 - Malaysians need not worry about a case in Nanjing, China where a consumer's finger turned blue after buying leek, believed sprayed with copper sulphate to keep the vegetable fresh.

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Local residents visit the exhibition room of Wireless Valley Science & Technology Park in Nanjing, east China's Jiangsu province, May 16, 2012.

At first glance, the brightly lit gym looks no different from any other in Beijing: high ceilings, a dance floor and wall-to-wall mirrors.

Running one's eyes around the exhibit galleries of Nanjing University History Museum is as good as getting a bird's eye view of the making of Nanjing as it is today.

The city is replete with history. But, our reporters, Chitralekha Basu and Song Wenwei, were intrigued by much more.

Parents desperate to get their children into kindergartens in China are divorcing because it gives their youngsters a better chance of being admitted.