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(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-04-08 11:45

Microsoft support for WinXP is ending but its fans still love it. CEO of nation's second largest online retailer admits he is in love with university student.

Chinese XP users won't let go

23,454 people said they will continue using the Windows XP system, far outnumbering the 6,889 who said will turn to new systems, a poll by Sino Weibo, a Chinese social networking site, has shown, up to10 am on Tuesday. Some said XP can well satisfy their need for home office use and entertainment.

After 12 years, support for Windows XP will end on April 8, 2014, Microsoft said in a proclamation on its website. There will be no more security updates or technical support for the Windows XP operating system, it added.

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Entrepreneur admits dating

Liu Qiangdong, founder and CEO of Jingdong, the nation's second largest online retailer, admitted he is in love with Zhang Zetian, a Tsinghua University student known for her beauty, on his Weibo account on Monday. The post was forwarded 137,601 times and received 106,640 comments within 20 hours.

In an interview with Sohu Video and Sohu Entertainment, Liu, 40, said everyone has the right to decide and choose one’s own life and he did not want to be treated as a celebrity.

Zhang, 21, became popular after a photo showing her holding a cup of milk tea went viral online in 2009. She has been known as "milk tea sister" since.

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Taiwan students to leave

Student protest leaders Monday announced that they would retreat from the chamber of Taiwan's legislative building at 6 pm Thursday, marking an end to their 21-day occupation since March 18, which severely disrupted legislative work, Taiwan-based The Central News Agency reported.

Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou welcomed the students' decision to leave the legislative chamber and allow the legislative authority to resume operation.

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Government building copycats US Capitol building

The office building of Lianshui County Environmental Protection Agency recently went into the media spotlight because it resembles the US Capitol building.

The State Council on March 20 again urged all government departments across the country to reexamine their building projects, and that local governments should not try to make their buildings elaborate.

Homemade 'license'

A man said to be over 70 years old had been riding an illegal electric tricycle on the street in Yangzhou when police stopped and questioned him. The old man then showed a hand-drawn "license", Jinling Evening News reported on Monday.

The man told the police that he paid 5,000 yuan ($805) for the tricycle, but the seller didn't tell him it couldn't be ridden legally on the street. He said he had a license and produced the homemade document, the newspaper reported.

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Duck bone killer

A 37-year-old man in Fuzhou died after swallowing a piece of duck bone, local online news portal Taihainet.com reported on Sunday. The victim, surnamed Chen, went to the hospital after the bone got lodged in his throat, but he refused treatment and hospitalization, the website reported. Five days later, Chen returned to the hospital with chest pains. Doctors found that his esophagus and the artery next to it had been damaged. The man died of severe infection despite treatment.

Patient asks police to get his cellphone

A hospitalized 30-year-old man called police to report a stolen cellphone but later admitted to officers that the phone was in his apartment and he wanted them to get it for him, Chongqing Evening News reported on Monday. The man was on an intravenous drip in a hospital on April 2 when he called police with another patient's phone and said his cellphone had probably been stolen. When officers showed up to talk to the man, he admitted that he knew his phone was in his apartment.

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Son accused of theft at father's urging

A 20-year-old college student was arrested for stealing cable to help his poor family at the urging of his father, Chongqing Evening News reported on Monday.

The father, surnamed Xiong, who worked at a golf course, allegedly asked his son to steal copper wire from a nearby construction site to pay his high tuition fees. The younger man knew it was a criminal act, but he still obeyed his father, the authorities said.

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