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Being obese is never seen as being advantageous. Aside from putting one at risk for many illnesses, another disadvantage of being big-bodied is, wellexperiencing a failed suicide attempt.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a high-profile official and close confidant to China on Wednesday as Beijing faces pressure to rein in its belligerent neighbor.

Along the northwestern Philippine coast, poor children with claw hammers clamber aboard an abandoned fishing vessel to pry loose and steal rusty nails from its deck.

Beijing, May 22 : Six people have been prosecuted for allegedly working together to blackmail government officials in the Chinese city of Chongqing with secretly recorded sex videos.

Artist Ai Weiwei poses for photos at a door of his studio in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

It was, at first glance, a rather modest initial public offering by a small Chinese company seeking to expand production of the key ingredient used in traditional remedies said to shrink gallstones, reduce fevers and sooth the aftereffects of excessive drinking.

Mobile QQ, an instant messaging app developed by Tencent Holdings Ltd , has become the most downloaded app at Apple Inc's AppStore in China, followed by Tencent's WeChat and QQ Music, according to Deutsche Bank's latest China TMT Daily report.

Sohu Reportedly Plans to Co-Found a Mobile Video App Developer Sohu.com Inc , a Chinese web portal, is considering working with a venture capital investor to spend a total of 80 million building a company to develop mobile apps of short videos, Bianews.com reported, without giving details.

Bank Lending to Rebound to 900 Billion in May Renminbi-denominated lending at China's top four state-owned banks totaled 233 billion in the first 21 days in May, and lending at all banks is estimated to hit 900 billion in the month, the 21st Century Business Herald reported, citing a person with knowledge of the matter.

Authorities in southern China say a mentally ill man stabbed six primary school students and an adult in the latest of several attacks on Chinese schoolchildren.

A court in the city of Chongqing has charged six people with working together to blackmail government officials by recording videos of them having sex, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday.

As a jury deliberates whether Jodi Arias should live or die for killing her one-time boyfriend, the convicted murderer says she deserves a chance at freedom someday.

Patrick Boehler has written for Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao.

China is on track to achieve its Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and to establish a moderately prosperous society by 2020, Shi Guohui, the Vice-Governor of Binxian County, in central China told a Pacific Islands delegation on May 10.

With a top-end camera hanging from his shoulder, Gao Yongxiang was searching out potential wives for some of China's richest bachelors through IFC, a landmark shopping mall located in the center of Shanghai's financial district.

Five people died when a 10 metre wide sinkhole opened up at the gates of an industrial estate in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese boom town neighbouring Hong Kong, local authorities said on Tuesday.

Every time a Chinese leader visits India, he usually meets the family of an Indian doctor who died while treating wounded Chinese soldiers in the conflict with Japan in the 1940s.

Farmers work at terraced fields in Hunan province, the provenance of much of the rice found to be contaminated by Guangzhou authorities.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart, Premier Li Keqiang, played down a recent border dispute, as they stressed the need for cooperation between the world's two most populous countries.

Hershey is heading to China to launch a candy brand called Lancaster, marking the first time in its 120-year history that the company has launched a new brand outside of the United States.