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Chinese television personality Liang Yi became China’s first “wheelchair anchor” despite a sudden illness taking away her health and bright future. Born in central China’s Hunan province in 1979, in 2001 Liang became an anchor at Hunan TV, one of China’s most popular television channels for the following two decades. She had a bright future, but just four months after starting the job, she suddenly lost consciousness while backstage preparing for a show. Liang was diagnosed with a spinal cord… Source link

Health secretary still maintains that forced removals are ‘right thing to do for the country’ Healey is now taking questions. Q: How close are are we to war? It is Labour that is the party of defence. Continue reading… Source link

The author has been explaining Sichuan cuisine to westerners for decades. But ‘Fu Xia’, as she’s known, has had a profound effect on food lovers in China, too Every autumn in the mid-00s, when I lived in China, my friend Scarlett Li would invite me to Shanghai to eat hairy crab. Named for the spiky fur on their legs and claws, the crabs are said to have the best flavour during the ninth month of the lunar calendar. They’re steamed and served whole, with a dip of rice vinegar spiked with ginger. The most prized specimens come from Yangcheng…