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A Taiwan-made transformer stood outside of Bird Nest in Beijing on 2010.07.09.

On the north side of Bird Nest, a 10-meter transformer made from waste by Taiwan artist stand still for the coming "Green Paradise" festival.

It will be there till 10th Oct.

A senior Chinese aviation official died after throwing himself in front of a railway train on Thursday, authorities confirmed over the weekend.

Media speculation attributed the suicide to an ongoing corruption investigation that has shaken the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC).

Liu Yajun, the 50-year-old chief of Central and Southern Regional Administration (CSRA) of CAAC, was found dead at 3 pm on Thursday near railroad tracks in Guangzhou, just months after taking office in February, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing police.

A total of 180,000 Chinese soldiers were killed while they fought with North Korea against US aggression in the early 1950s, a Chinese major general said ahead of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, which fell last Friday.

More than 110,000 members of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army died in combat in the war that involved 18 countries, Major General Xu Yan, who is also a professor with the Chinese People's Liberation Army's National Defense University, wrote in an article in the latest issue of WenShi Cankao, a periodical under the People's Daily.

Before China's reform and opening up in the early 1980s, the casualty figures of Chinese troops in the Korean War had not been released.

In the 1980s, an increasingly transparent China said a total of 360,000 soldiers were killed or injured, but the number of deaths remained a mystery.

A woman in southwest China has been executed after being convicted of forcing 22 schoolchildren into prostitution, state press said Monday.

Zhao Qingmei was put to death in Guizhou province "in recent days" after her final appeal was rejected, the Guizhou Daily reported.

Zhao was convicted with six others of forcing the 22 pupils, some of whom may have been as young as six, and an older girl into prostitution in the impoverished mountainous province from March to June 2006, the paper said.

Zhao was also convicted of aiding her husband in the rape of a child, it added.