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The cigarette lighted by Victor Hartono looks like a sparkling flambeau, all the more so because of the kretek, the crackling sound it makes. The Djarum brand, like most Indonesian cigarettes, crackles when puffed. Hartono wears the Djarum Group’s uniform with the Djarum logo, just like any other employee, even though he is the chief operating officer and the empire was founded by his grandfather.

Remember those days when you had to make your way to the nearest travel agency and buy your air ticket one month ahead? On travel day, you had to wait in line for half an hour to check in.

Today, you can buy a ticket via your mobile phone three days before traveling, charge the flight to your phone bill and reserve a seat online. With a two-dimensional bar code sent to your mobile, you scan it for a boarding pass at a do-it-yourself check-in counter. You’re good to go in less than 15 minutes.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea said on Thursday it had approved plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States.

Washington, in response, has scrambled to reinforce its Pacific missile defenses, preparing to send ground-based interceptors to Guam.

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the DPRK's increasingly bellicose threats combined with its military capabilities represented a "real and clear danger" to the US and to its allies the Republic of Korea and Japan.

Putting your unique resume online to interact with head hunters and managers may get you closer to your goal, but it takes patience, Xu Lin finds out.

When Wang Xinming first saw people "Nordic walking" in a park - using a pair of poles while walking naturally - he thought only people with a physical disability would walk with sticks.

But after he tried it once, the 68-year-old former civil servant soon became an enthusiast of this growing sport, which was developed in Finland in 1997 and introduced into China a decade ago.

The use of poles reduces the stress on joints, especially protecting knees during a workout. The pole action also strengthens the upper body.

Independent Chinese app developers face a struggle for survival in the domestic market, despite its size and growing revenue, as Zhang Yuchen reports from Beijing.

A gleam of hope may have lit up the eyes of independent mobile application developers in response to the news that 17-year-old Nick D'Aloisio has officially earned his seat at the cool kids' table by selling his news-aggregator app, called Summly, to the tech giant Yahoo! for a reported $30 million in cash and stock.

Two years ago the waters off the East African coast were the most dangerous in the world for commercial shipping.

Super tankers, bulk carriers and container ships were regularly attacked by heavily armed modern-day pirates operating from ports along the war-torn coast of Somalia.

The typical ship-hijacking scenario is that cargo and crew are held captive as the pirates negotiate ransoms with insurers and shipowners that run up to extortionate amounts. The cost to the shipping industry runs into the billions of dollars annually.

An inflamed pancreas was the jab in the side Zhao Zhiqiang needed to realize that health insurance was a good idea.

"It was like torture. It was really painful, and even though it was more than six months ago, I'm still afraid of hospital drips," said the 52-year-old farmer from Huangdi village in Jilin city.

"But the most painful experience was when the nurse told me there wasn't enough money in my hospital account to cover the cost of the medicine. That happened quite a few times," he recalled.

Vietnam is guilty of a "sheer fabrication" in accusing a Chinese navy vessel of "firing" on Vietnamese boats that were illegally fishing off China's Xisha Islands last week, the Chinese navy said.

"The Chinese vessel fired into the sky two red warning signal shells, which burned out and extinguished in the air", an unnamed official with the Chinese navy said on Tuesday.

The Chinese vessel had not fired weapons, and the Vietnamese boats had not caught fire, the official said.

The new government has sounded the anti-corruption warning bell within two weeks of taking power, vowing to build a "clean" government.

"Power, money and the behavior of officials should all be restricted by regulations. A system that does not allow opportunities for, and frightens people away from, corruption should be formulated," said Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday.