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Big year for European opera

[2014-01-03 07:44]

The year 2013 saw musical tributes paid to two of the greatest talents from the world of opera: Richard Wagner from Germany and Giuseppe Verdi from Italy.

Music siblings keep thinking big

[2014-01-03 07:44]

When Chen Jinfang and her younger brother Chen Rentai started their record company in 1993, neither knew much about the music industry.

Songwriter plans to take Year of the Horse literally

[2014-01-03 07:44]

Veteran songwriter and producer Luan Shu found himself in a dilemma all of last year.

Editor's picks

[2014-01-03 07:44]

Shanxi's banks onstage

No place like home

[2014-01-03 07:44]

East or West, home is best. Two parallel exhibitions at the Beijing World Art Museum show the similarities and differences in how Chinese and Western interior furnishing bring dwellers comfort and security.

Counting sheep

[2014-01-03 07:44]

While planners and decorators are gathering horse images as the Chinese New Year approaches, nine young designers at China Post are a year ahead of the game. They've just finished a competition to create stamps for the Finnish autonomous region of Aland, an archipelago of 6,500 islands famous for an endemic breed of sheep.

Art beat ... finger on the pulse

[2014-01-03 07:44]

Beijing

Eye on the future

[2014-01-03 07:44]

It was in the later years of the 1990s, and beef hotpot restaurants were catching on in popularity in Beijing. Si Guiquan was working as a butcher at a slaughterhouse that offered meat processing services to some of the capital's most popular restaurants.

Shooting blind

[2014-01-03 07:44]

Standing in front of 10 blind children in a small lecture-room, CaiCong instructs them step-by-step how to take a photo without seeing an object.

Coffee break on island time

[2014-01-02 08:10]

In the 1960s, when China's economy was strictly centrally planned, Hainan's thousands of hectares of coffee orchards were State owned. No one could pick coffee cherries without permission - except the birds.

Fashion firm primps rural ambitions

[2014-01-02 08:10]

Zhang Zhuo says whenever she attends a friend or relative's wedding, she adores the bride's makeup and dress. Like most girls, she loves beauty. But the junior college student from a poor family in Hongdou village, Shifang city in Sichuan province, could not afford expensive cosmetics. Every morning, she simply paints her lips and eye brows facing a small mirror in her dorm at Polus International College, at suburban Chengdu.

What lies beneath

[2014-01-02 08:10]

The ancient city of Jiaohe had archaeologists stumped. Why were the older relics found near the Earth's surface, while more recent artifacts were buried far below? Yu Fei of China Features explores the city that went underground.

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