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A handsome but anonymous guardian of the Olympics torch on its troubled world tour has won legions of Chinese female fans -- and plenty of marriage proposals.

A flock of hungry sheep gobbled up banknotes totalling 100,000 yuan that were the public funds of a northern Chinese village, state media reported on Tuesday.

China has formally banned trading in human organs state media reported Wednesday amid ongoing allegations that the nation is heavily involved in harvesting body parts from executed prisoners.

British PM Gordon Brown praises Shanghai's new eco-city, but it is doubtful whether the city demonstrates that China is serious about protecting the environment.

There is always concern that Shenzhen, the first city to implement China’s open door policy, is not a safe city - crimes are rampant, including those against Hong Kong people and foreigners. The following facts explain why.

Pingyao is a beautiful town preserving the architectural aesthetics of Chinese traditional buildings. It is distinguished from other places in China in that it has well preserved its architecture and urban landscape of China’s Ming and Qing dynasties, earning it a place on the UNESCO world heritage list. Because it is relatively unknown, the city is not swamped with tourists yet and the local government has done a good job in preserving the 2,700-year old city – it is the best preserved wall-city in China.

“Two American men were deported for sleeping with too many girls,” a foreign friend reported to me sometime ago. “They gave a number of girls hope about marriage and traveling to America and the girls willingly gave themselves to the guys.” My friend was a teacher in a small town in Central China were news always traveled fast. She explained that when the girls realized that they had been ‘used’, they complained to the local authorities who promptly arrested the men and sent them out of the country.

In a weird twist of product bans, and perhaps to show that it works both ways - China has banned all chicken coming from Canada after a farm in Western Canada discovered some of their chickens infected with a strain of bird flu that (unlike the kind that killed a bunch of people in China) is not lethal to humans.

A Chinese netizen asks for advice on an internet BBS forum for a friend who was raped before her wedding. Should she report it and risk her wedding/marriage?