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As China's population ages rapidly, and with the one-child policy having left parents with little in the way of support from children, the upper crust of elderly Chinese society are paying to spend the last years of their lives in style.
This fitness enthusiast is not your average senior citizen. Yang Maolin says that regular exercise is the secret to his age. How old is he exactly? Actually, he's 101 years old. Yang lived all his life in the countryside until he left three years ago after his wife died. He moved to China's Xi'an to live with his children, but never stopped exercising. The 101-year old has become very popular in his new home town, where many locals recognize him at Revolution Park. It seems like a no brainer to suggest that regular exercise is the secret to a long and healthy life.
Former Australian Trade Minister Craig Emerson and former Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing co-chair the 7th China-Australia high-level dialogue in Beijing on Thursday, where Emerson says Australia continues to advocate for progress on cases of Australians detained in China, among other political and economic issues.
China has long battled air pollution in its major cities. The air quality was so bad in places like Beijing that residents kept their windows closed, wore face masks and used air purifiers to escape what was dubbed the air-pocalypse. But a new report has found that Chinese people are living two years longer thanks to the government's War on Pollution.
North Korea's first international commercial flight in three years has landed in Beijing as Pyongyang shows tentative signs of easing its prolonged Covid isolation. North Korea shut its borders in early 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic, but there are increasing signals the country may be moving towards reopening. A previously scheduled North Korean flight to Beijing on 21 August was abruptly cancelled, with no official reason given.
A number of London police have stepped back from firearms duties after a fellow officer was charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a young black man, a force spokesman said Sunday. Police in Britain are not routinely armed and the small proportion who are authorised to carry guns are highly trained.
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