When ministers from different countries meet to talk shop, they usually converse using predictable lines of vague, hyper-positive "diplo-speak". But Monday's discussion between the Chinese and Indonesian ministries of culture was a different take on the same old song and dance.
Ten years ago, when Michelle Garnaut visited Shanghai as a guest chef for the Peace Hotel, she was dismayed to find a set of curtains blocking the view of the city's most famous landmark, the Bund.
An increasing public interest in Buddhism has boosted tourism to Buddhist sites.
"For quite a long time, I devoted all my energy to amassing a fortune. Now, I've found that a bigger fortune has not given real joy and happiness to me and my family," Chen Xiaoxu, a millionairess and famed actress, told local media before taking the tonsure (head-shaving ceremony) last month at a Buddhist monastery in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin Province.
The world of red carpet galas and the financial sector are usually mutually exclusive scenes. But not today. At a Beijing securities company, Kevin Gu is in the process of showing his colleagues just how dapper he can be.
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