It was an intriguing spectacle for shoppers at Carrefour's Fangzhuang branch last Saturday morning: teams of international and Chinese volunteers clustered at the entrance and exit, handing out flyers and asking shoppers to buy extra food.
In Beijing, a city where a 100-square-meter flat is considered "spacious", few people are lucky enough to expand into anything bigger and almost no one gets the luxury of unused space. That is what Liu Jia, CEO of Jiamei Dental, experiences every day. Living with his wife, Liu has a house that far, far exceeds 100 sq m - with more than 1,000 sq m of living space, it has twice as much land again.
When Zhao Jing decides to take an album of photo keepsakes, she decided to go to a studio where she can choose to be an opera diva. She wanted more than just a fashion lookbook, she wanted something that would dovetail into her interest in traditional Chinese culture.
GUANGZHOU - The gold medal winning Korean women's archery team used the daunting experience of handling snakes as part of its training methods.
Day one of men's Greco-Roman wrestling started with fireworks in the 55kg section as world No 1 Hamid Soryan Reihanpour of Iran defeated world No 2 Choi Gyn-jun of Korea 2-1 in a hotly-contested qualification battle.
GUANGZHOU - First he ripped off his shirt. Then he made a military salute to the audience. Then he took off his shoes and threw them into the crowd at the packed Tianhe Stadium.
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