Half a century ago it was a workshop churning out bullets and guns in the Chinese capital city.
Mobile phone subscribers are expected to be the major source of internet newcomers, Robin Li, chairman and CEO of Baidu.com, said at Boao.
Cong Fei, a well-known donor-cum-singer in China, died yesterday in Shenzhen.
After nearly three years of waiting, "Jasmine Women" (Moli Huakai), a Zhang Ziyi's movie shot in 2003, is finally set for a public release.
The story of Zhou Xuan (1920-57), the legendary singer and actress who was a household name in the 1930s, will be retold in a TV drama now being shot in Shanghai.
When Gong Zhuxun heard the news that a corpse deep in the Lop Nur desert might be that of lost scientist Peng Jiamu (1925-1980), he could not hide his anxiety.
Fang Zhixing, now 61 years old, got divorced in 2000 when his ex-wife emigrated to New Zealand. His daughter went to join his ex-wife abroad, and so will his son.
China's best-known filmmaker, Zhang Yimou, was named Sunday to lead a crew of high-profile consultants including American director Steven Spielberg in designing the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
A Chinese expedition last winter found a mummy on the edge of the Lop Nur salt basin, at a spot where a well-known scientist went mysteriously missing nearly 26 years ago.
A Chinese man who was wrongly jailed for 11 years for a nonexistent "murder" has found his first job as a marketing manager one year after being released from prison.
The limited-edition shoe, a collaboration between Adidas and San Francisco speciality clothing maker HUF, features an image of an Asian man with bowl-cut hair, slanted eyes, pig nose and buck teeth. Created by US artist Barry McGee, the image on the 'Fong' sneaker's tongue resembles ones used in past anti-Chinese political cartoons. [file photo]
Taiwanese pop idol Jay Chou was named best new performer and China's "Ke Ke Xi Li" won the top Asian movie honors Saturday at the 25th Hong Kong Film Awards _ one of the most prestigious events for the Chinese-language movie industry.