China's new superpower - a supermodel (VIDEO)

Chinese supermodel becomes fashion industry's new go-to girl.

You may not know her name but you've probably seen her face. Just open up any fashion magazine, watch any catwalk show or cosmetics tv advert. Supermodel Liu Wen is considered China's new superpower, at least that is, in the fashion world.

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China bans ads from television dramas

BEIJING, (AFP) - Chinese broadcasters will be banned from airing commercial breaks during television dramas from January 1 or face being suspended, the country's top media regulatory body said on Monday.

The ban follows a State Administration of Radio Film and Television directive in October warning the nation's main 34 satellite broadcasters they would be barred from showing "excessive entertainment" and must air at least two hours of news nightly, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

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Chinese girl dies in hit and run that sparked outrage

BEIJING (Oct 21, 2011): A two-year-old Chinese girl run over by two different vehicles and ignored by passersby has died, local media reported on Friday, in a case which ignited public uproar over what some called the immorality of modern society.

The hospital's "all-out efforts were ineffective" at saving Wang Yue, the China News Service cited a local news website as saying. She died in the early hours of Friday more than a week after the accident.

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China shocked as hit-run toddler ignored by 18 passers-by (VIDEO)

THE fate of a toddler left comatose after being knocked down by a van in a market - with her mangled body run over by a second vehicle and ignored by 18 passers-by - has prompted an outpouring of soul-searching and self-revulsion across China.

Yueyue, two, was 100m from her family home in Foshan, south China, when she wandered into the path of a van on Thursday last week.

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