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[Metro & Sports]

• A cold snap in many parts of China Sunday reminded everyone that it is probably too soon to stack away their thick winter clothes.
• Dozens of workers in Hangzhou, the capital city of China's Zhejiang Province are struggling desperately to finish retrieving the carcasses of dead hogs from a local river before they contaminate the city's major source of drinking water.
• Days after a zoo in China's Liaoning Province was forced to explain how 11 Siberian tigers died under its care, workers have raised allegations that the zoo used the tigers to make prized tiger bone wine, a charge that an investigator has refuted.
• A Chinese women's rights group has called for better law enforcement training to help battered wives and abused children.
• The English football star's dream of playing in a fourth World Cup is dashed after he tore an Achilles tendon in AC Milan's 1-0 win over Chievo on Sunday.
• Fernando Alonso led Felipe Massa to a stunning Ferrari one-two after the Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel hit trouble at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix.

[China's Champion] Wang Xuemei, China's Top Woman Forensic Doctor

She is a noble and elegant woman, but she works with corpses. For her, she is not only performing autopsies on dead bodies but also working with her clients and friends. She says she deeply respects deceased souls.

[Cultural Voyage] Li Yugang

Men playing female roles in stage performances can be dated back to Ancient Rome and were widely seen in Shakespeare's plays. Well, that phenomenon is not exclusive to the west. In traditional Chinese operas, such as Peking Opera, many female characters are performed by male actors.
Li Yugang is one of the most popular actors currently singing and performing in drag on stage in China. He is one of the two Chinese singers to successfully hold their own concerts in the Sydney Opera House.

[Life]  Eye on the Rising Psychological Problems of China's Youth

A recent survey showed that sixty percent of college students in China feel isolated and 80 percent feel like they are victims of social injustice. Is the mental health of China's young people really on the wane? If so, how can this be rectified?

• A one-meter-high platform temporarily raised for news media collapsed at a ceremony to mark the start of filming "Zhao's Orphan", leaving several journalists injured.
• The name of the late actor Corey Haim was found on a fraudulent prescription for a powerful painkiller that authorities said was obtained through a major drug ring.
• It been confirmed by UsMagazine.com that former riendsstar, David Schwimmer is getting married to Zoe Buckman, his longtime girlfriend.

[Strange News]

• Looking for the gift for someone who already has everything? Try a Shenyang J-6 fighter plane (the Chinese version of the old Soviet MiG-19 "Farmer" jet) for only 150,000 yuan or 22, 000 Us dollars.
• Provincial people's hospital in Zhengzhou, Henan Province has come up with an idea to help pregnant women-particularly those who aren't showing yet-safeguard the health of their developing infants and themselves.
• A 22-year-old woman convicted of drug smuggling was named Miss Captive Beauty 2010 during a beauty pageant at a Mexican prison.
• A 27-year-old woman in the American state of New Mexico was arrested March 5 on assault charges after looking through her ex-husband's cell phone records, according to Las Cruces Police.

[Real China] African Designed Clothes in China

The African population is increasing in China, and so is its culture. The majority of Africans currently living in cities like Beijing and Shanghai may be students, but the other smaller population include those working here, and they are bringing along their cultural values and introducing them to the Chinese market.