China Crowns First Miss Plastic Surgery
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A 22-year-old student who has had cosmetic surgery on her eyelids and cheeks was crowned the winner Saturday of China's first pageant for such "manmade beauties."
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China has chosen Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower" to represent the country in the Academy Awards best foreign film race, while Hong Kong has picked Feng Xiaogang's "The Banquet."
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Beijing, Sept 4. (PTI): China will host the first International Stewardess Beauty Pageant in early November in Zhuhai in south China&#39;s Guangdong Province, the organisers announced today.
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A 32-year-old woman in Belgium has become the first woman ever to give birth after having ovarian tissue removed, frozen and then implanted back in her body, doctors are reporting.
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BEIJING - Doctors in southern China were planning to perform surgery on a 1-year-old boy whose parents took him to a hospital because he had been unusually fussy and learned he had six sewing needles in his body, newspapers reported Monday.
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China has its first defeat at the World Trade Organization in a case centred on its limits on foreign-made car parts.
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A year and a half after receiving the world's first partial face transplant, Isabelle Dinoire said the operation has given her a normal life again, though she felt a part of her identity has disappeared.
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BEIJING - Her hair is jet black and curly, her figure trim, her face free of wrinkles. Liu Yulan looks at least a decade younger than her 62 years - thanks to four visits to a cosmetic surgeon.
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Singapore crowned its first  transsexual beauty queen at the weekend -- an about-face for a  country renowned for its strict social controls.
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China has for the first time introduced laws specifically targeting the spread of Aids and outlawing discrimination against victims of infectious diseases.
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Thai surgeons will perform the world's first live sex change operation on Friday in an attempt to boost the country's booming cosmetic surgery industry.
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China, responding to complaints from  the public, has banned advertisements for medical treatments  and procedures in a bid to halt bogus claims of wonder drugs  and clean up an unregulated health industry.
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Miss Peru, Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, has been named as Miss World 2004, at the beauty pageant held in China. Miss Mantilla Garcia, 20, beat 14 other finalists which included 22-year-old Brisbane resident Sarah Davies.
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Miss Peru, Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, was crowned Miss World 2004 at a glittering event held in China. Miss Dominican Republic Claudia Julissa Cruz Rodriguez was the first runner-up, and Miss USA Nancy Randall was third.
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There has been a big increase in the number of people undergoing cosmetic plastic surgery.
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SANYA, China: China&#39;s sleepy tropical resort of Sanya was buzzing with energy Saturday as beauty queens made last-minute preparations for the hotly anticipated finale of the 2004 Miss World contest.
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Operation gives Chinese man with 15kg tumour hope of leading a normal life