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(CNN) -- Kindergartens in three Chinese provinces are accused of giving prescription drugs to children without their parents' knowledge, according to Xinhua, China's state-run news agency. The drugs were given to prevent the children from getting sick in order to boost attendance, the news...

By Feng Ke and Katie Hunt, CNN November 11, 2013 -- Updated 0551 GMT (1351 HKT) Beijing (CNN) -- Twenty-year-old Li Xue has a passion for learning but has never spent a day at school. The only way she could study was by borrowing books with her elder sister's library card and begging her for...

(CNN) -- Tree leaves were turning yellow and red in Damascus, Oregon, in late October. Competing with fall foliage for attention were Halloween decorations, which adorned almost every house in this sleepy middle-class suburb of Portland on America's Pacific West Coast. A few pumpkins sat on the...

Smog in China has become a threat to national security because surveillance cameras guarding sensitive sites can’t film through the thick haze, experts claim. The smog that blankets the country for much of the year is getting worse and now the central government fears terrorists may choose a...

Auto industry officials have expressed concerns about such caps, but in a country with more than 200 cities with populations of more than 1 million, manufacturers don’t believe this will prove a major problem to their businesses. Suffering some of the worst smog ever in recent months, Beijing...

I considered highlighting relevant passages but the entire article is well worth a read: Editor’s note: Sarah Cook is a senior research analyst for East Asia at Freedom House and author of report The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship, which was released October 22 by the National Endowment...

A video grab purportedly shows an attack on Shia passengers on their way to Gilgit-Baltistan. It remains unconfirmed whether the video is from the August 16 incident or April 3. “It must have been early morning when about two dozen masked men, in army uniforms, stopped their convoy of...

(CNN) -- Armed militants attacked a passenger train in southwestern Pakistan, killing three people and injuring more than a dozen others, police said on Friday. The attackers fired on the Jaffar Express with a rocket before opening fire on the train in Balochistan's troubled Bolan district...

BEIJING, Aug 11 (Reuters) - China plans to accelerate investment in technology to save energy and tackle the dire pollution blamed for a series of health crises that have generated widespread public anger. The government has been increasingly alarmed by social unrest caused by environmental...

Chinese data points usually skew upwards, at least in absolute numbers. More cars, more factories, more houses (whether needed or not). Not so in tourism: the number of foreigners coming to China took a sudden fall in the first half of 2013. The Associated Press reports that overall arrivals...

More than 300 villages drowned in the most recent episode of torrential rains in several areas of the country, Express News reported. A total of 55 billion cusecs of water is expected to cross the Taunsa Barrage on Thursday. All five drains of the Gujranwala district have faced diluvium...

KARACHI: Three police officials, including DSP Qasim Ghauri, were killed during an encounter with armed men near Karachi's Safari Park on Thursday, local media reports said. The encounter took place in the city's Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town during which two policemen had also been injured. The...

Countless pieces of literature armed with historical facts and sporting the subtlety of a 200 pound gorilla brace you for a damning revelation ; When you kneel down in prayer,chances are high that you are probably talking to yourself. But what they don't prepare you for when you jump off the...

New Delhi, Nov 1: Congress spokesperson, Manish Tiwari reacted strongly against the comment of Wipro chief, Azim Premji on Tuesday,Nov 1. Dismissing Premji's criticism on the UPA government, Tiwari claimed that there was no truth in Premji's statement. Accusing Premji's comment of lacking...

American employers reported slower hiring last month, but a falling unemployment rate showed the job market may actually be gaining strength. Employers added 80,000 jobs in October, the Labor Department reported Friday, marking a sharp slowdown from hiring in September and August. Government...

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Life is ours, we live it our way… and nothing else matters… There would never be truer words than these that emanate from James Hetfield's lips in his oh-so-heavenly baritone. For any teenager this was, and will continue to be, gospel. My affair with Metallica began in my early teens, with...

India tops medal tally at South Asia Beach Games Colombo, Oct 14 (PTI) India topped medals tally at the first ever South Asian Beach Games held in the southern coastal Hambantota beach. Indian contingent won 11 gold, nine silver and seven bronze to finish with 27 medals. Hosts Sri Lanka won...