China to launch manned space flight on Oct. 15: After a decade of preparation, China will launch its first human being into space on October 15 in a 90-minute flight that will orbit the Earth once.
Going into space to gain face: Ranked 96th in last year's UN Human Development Index, China still counts itself among the mass of poor, developing nations. Yet it is expected next week to try and put a man into orbit, becoming only the third nation in history to do so.
As Big Brother Fades, Chinese Rush to Say 'I Do': Autumn is always wedding season in China, but this week record numbers of couples have been marrying in cities like Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai, according to officials and news media reports. In Beijing, by one report, more than 2,000 couples were married on Oct. 1, while the state news agency put the nationwide total that day at tens of thousands of couples. Some began lining up at wedding registration offices at 5 a.m.
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