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Photo: A woman practices making noodles in Huayuan, Hami prefecture, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Monday. The prefecture provides job-skills training such as cooking, truck driving and electric welding, to more than 10,000 residents aged from 16 to 45 in rural areas to improve their chances of getting work.

Bilingual: Handsome men can earn more than their other male colleagues, but beautiful women are not paid a penny more than their female colleagues, new research has shown. Beauty can be a double-edged sword for women because "some people still believe good looks and intelligence are incompatible in women", according to Andrew Leigh, the former economics professor at the Australian National University who co-authored the report.