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Ganesh Kumar Bangah turned 23 in true techpreneur style. He listed a company, entered the Malaysian Book of Records as the youngest chief executive officer of a public-listed company, and pocketed his first 1 million ringgit ($328,812).

That was in 2002. Just a few years earlier, he had merely been an ambitious engineering undergraduate. He had been managing cybercafés and peddling a proprietary cybercafé management system, having developed it with a business partner.

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.

Officers and soldiers from the People's Liberation Army navy are well prepared and determined to protect China's territorial integrity and marine interests, said naval officers stationed on the frontier island of Zhongjian in the South China Sea.

"Last year when I came home I told my wife that if there will be a war, I must fulfill my duties in my position," Qiu Hua, an officer from the naval garrison that guards the island, told China Daily.

Trading of live poultry suspended following deaths, report Shan Juan and He Na in Beijing, and Wang Hongyi in Shanghai.

Few stalls were open on Sunday in Shanghai's Wanshang flower and bird market in the wake of deaths from the H7N9 strain of bird flu. Sunday is usually the busiest day of the week as bird lovers of all ages wander around and listen to the chorus of thousands of birds.

On April 6, the local government ordered the suspension of all trading in live poultry and pet birds, but so far there has been no official directive to close the market.

He was a young man who seemed in search of something — meaning to his life, perhaps. He traveled on his search through the Middle East and Eastern Europe into Greece, a journey he chronicled in a series of blog posts from May 7 to September 9, 2007.

Only recently, twenty-nine-year-old Danny Ho Hing-sang had decided to settle down — stop bouncing between part-time jobs and traveling with his girlfriend. He got a job as an IT technician at an international news agency in Hong Kong.

Four o'clock in the morning and a slim Chinese woman jumps off a truck stacked with cabbage in the wilds of Kenya, her face covered with dust from the road and around her nothing but darkness.

For many it could be a moment of worry, alone in a foreign land, but for 27-year-old Yuan Tian it was another part of a great adventure that took her deep into the culture of the African country.

It’s around sunset. An old woman on Nam Kee Wharf shouts to a water taxi festooned with pink neon lights. The boat putters over. The evening’s first dinner guests have arrived. They climb aboard the water taxi and are ferried the short distance to a cluster of small wooden “dinner” boats, loosely distributed around a large floating kitchen.

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.

Li Shengbo, 24-year-old undergraduate in Beijing, stopped school for a year to hitchhike around China.

Starting in February 2011, Li spent 10 months on the road going to almost all the major cities and the most remote corners of the country, including the snow-peaked mountains in the Tibet autonomous region, and Mohe, the northernmost county in China where the aurora borealis glows in the night sky.

As an icy nightfall wind whipped across Miyun reservoir, a White-naped Crane raised its wings with a lazy flap, almost like a yawn, before rising into the air. Five hundred meters away, 20 bird watchers shivered in the bushes as they attempted to capture the bird's exotic dance through cameras and binoculars. More than 500 of the birds had alighted by the reservoir, 90 kilometers northeast of Beijing's urban area, pecking, preening and shaking their tail feathers.

A fire caused by faulty electrical equipment killed 13 boys at an Islamic school in Yangon on Tuesday, the fire service said, although some Muslims voiced concern because it came after a wave of anti-Muslim violence in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.

The boys suffocated after the fire broke out in a dormitory of the school in the central, multiethnic Botataung district of the former capital at about 2:40 am, neighbors and officials said.