This book contains just some of the many topics covered by our dedicated team of Chinese and foreign journalists and photographers, from social changes affecting millions of people to innovative business trends involving billions of dollars. They have traveled across China and the world to listen to the voices of those on the ground, to record their tales of sorrow, their tales of hope and their tales of survival in the face of disaster.

EYE ON CHINA

 Bodyguards a safe investment for rich

 Poor patients dicing with their lives

 They survived SARS, but live in agony

 Copy-making vs profit-making

 Magazines turning new page in battle for readers

 Human flesh search could turn predatory

 Donors kept in the dark on where money goes

 Nuclear reaction to tourist attraction

 Misconceptions about contraception

 AIDS and the elderly

 Gay rights in China: Road to respect

 Migrants cash in on labor shortage

 'Ants' feel the bite of being forced out

VIEW FROM THE VILLAGES

 Radical treatment for healthcare

 Trade in trigger-happy towns

 'Work widows' suffer in silence

 From land to luxury

 Green NGO drives change at grass roots

 'Strangers' return to a frosty village welcome

 Getting past the class divide

 Taking, the flicks into the sticks

 Travelers make final stretch for reunions

 Unlike parents, young migrants won't take their fate lying down

 Fight against AIDS has a long way to go

 Democracy takes root in rural areas

 Home alone in the countryside

CITY LIFE

 'I will never give up my search'

 Foreign faces there for rent

 When love no longer reigns for 'kings & queens'

 Springing the Net to reconnect

 Couples become easy prey in tube baby boom

 Heartache of childless couples

 Short-term gain vs long-term strain

 Bidding fashionable farewell to the dead

 Too good to waste as rubbish is chic

 Bid to make the way to heaven smooth

 Eking out a living is becoming burden

 Underpaid, overworked and ignored

 Ancient cures for modern ills

 Prejudice forcing men offwards