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Rescuers in Nepal have pulled a Chinese worker alive from the debris-sealed tunnel of a hydropower project, ten days after an August mudslide buried the border crossing at Gyirong. Lu Haitao survived by climbing to the tunnel's highest point and shouting at every light he saw.

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Knife Hidden in a Gratitude Banner: Guiyang Doctor Stabbed by Patient Is Out of Danger

A colorectal cancer patient in Guiyang hid a blade inside a silk thank-you banner and stabbed a young doctor who was not even his physician. After two days in intensive care the doctor is stable, the suspect is in custody — and China's doctors are once again asking, publicly, why they stay in the job.

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A Famous Chinese Maths Tutor Wants English Demoted as a Core School Subject

Tang Jiafeng, one of China's best-known exam-prep tutors, has publicly called for English to lose its status as a core school subject, calling decades of compulsory English a waste of most students' time. The argument landed at the top of two platforms at once — and reopened an old fight over what Chinese children owe the world's language.