TV shows of various kinds have been flourishing these days, encouraging sponsors to compete for audience attention. Hunan Satellite TV, a long-time front runner in churning out entertainment programs, has taken on performance art lately in a move to promote one of its hit shows -- Miss Star Pageant 2006, reports the Chongqing Times.
Meining, a popular blog host based in Guangdong, posted a notice looking for a boyfriend, listing 11 rigid requirements, one of which is assets amounting to five million yuan (US$ 630,000), according to her bog on hexun.com on August 26.
For Dawa, a Zang ethnic minority and his family, the late Chairman Mao Zedong is a legend and like a god to him, and someone, who he says, is worth thanking from the bottom of his heart.
Zhu Qi (alias), a 34-year-old divorced woman, is not worried about finding a life-long mate for herself, but she is certainly anxious to find a father for her two-year-old son, Kaikai.
Recently online news stories and chat rooms are filled with people debating an issue that is encapsulated in a photo shot on campus in central China's Hunan Province: A domestic cleaner tidies a campus dorm while a student sits at a desk surfing the Internet.
On a night of surprises at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, China's "Still Life," about the giant Three Gorges Dam project and its impact on ordinary people, won the top award and Hollywood's Ben Affleck was named best actor.
Jiao Hua, a teenager from the eastern province of Anhui was upbeat and full of confidence and curiosity. He was a talented athlete and said he planned to take the college entrance examination and hoped to be accepted into the Shanghai University of Sport.
China's entertainment industry is facing another sex scandal as a 22-year-old actress claims a director of the China Central Television (CCTV) asked her to sleep with him in return for a role in the TV drama "Painter Village".
Famed mainland Chinese actress Liu Xiaoqing said she studied English and worked out during her more than yearlong detention over tax evasion, a news report said Sunday.
A photograph of a spontaneous moment at the Venice Film Festival that caught Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi in a wide-mouth smile of shock and surprise is being hotly debated by China's netizens.
Taiwanese singer-actress Meng Guangmei is currently under fire on the Internet for her remarks about the mainland on a television talk show in Taiwan.
Donnie Yen says fellow action star Jet Li is a major source of his acting injuries, with Li responsible for wounding his eyebrow twice.