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Spending time with the family is the most important thing

[2014-01-30 08:26]

My first Chunjie (Chinese Spring Festival) was spent at my wife's home in the Fangshan district of Beijing.

It's more for adults than children

[2014-01-30 08:26]

I participated in China Central Television's 1999 Spring Festival gala in a crosstalk (a form of humorous dialogue) show with Mark Henry Rowswell - who's known in China as Dashan ("Big Mountain") - and other expats, including some from the former Yugoslavia and some from Africa. At the time, we were all students of Ding Baoquan, a crosstalk master.

A time for silence and for hongbao

[2014-01-30 08:26]

One of my grandfathers was from Guangdong, so our family also celebrates Spring Festival in Bangkok, but we don't make the dumplings ourselves, we buy them instead. We also go to Bangkok's Chinatown for dinner.

Professionals find appetite for etiquette

[2014-01-29 08:07]

'If one does not learn good manners, one can never succeed," states a verse from The Analects written by Confucius in about 500 BC.

Tips

[2014-01-29 08:07]

Qualities valued by the Chinese

Experts face an uphill task in fight against child sex abuse

[2014-01-28 07:53]

To Meng Meng, a 5-year-old from a small village in Fujian province, the sand in the box was no more than sand and the miniature figures and animals she had been given in a sun-filled room were no more than toys.

From vineyards of Bordeaux to Chinese cellars

[2014-01-27 08:25]

The biggest wine deal in Chinese history ended in tragedy last month when billionaire Hao Lin, his 12-year-old son and two other people were killed in a helicopter crash, their aircraft plunging into the River Dordogne as they toured a chateau and vineyard in Bordeaux.

China still has a long way to go

[2014-01-27 08:25]

Wine is like a book of mysteries. It intrigues you, so you keep reading, but the more you read, the less you know.

Social insurance program leaves expats confused

[2014-01-24 07:12]

Elsa Jacquin has a social insurance card issued by the Chinese government, but the French expatriate is not sure if she is covered by the country's social security network, and doesn't know where to seek an answer to this and many other questions.

Admirable intentions, but poor performance

[2014-01-24 07:12]

Editor's note: Ulrich O. Birch, 62, is chairman of the European Chamber in the southwest region. Until December 2011, the Swiss national was president of ABB Turbocharging in Chongqing.

Find provides grave paws for thought

[2014-01-23 07:24]

For many cat lovers, the best thing about felines is their unpredictability; sometimes they act as though they worship their "owners", but often they behave as though they have been carved from an iceberg, implacable and devoid of compassion. That unpredictability raises the question of why humans tolerated such capricious behavior in the first place.

A long, mutually beneficial relationship

[2014-01-23 07:24]

In 2004, cat bones were discovered alongside human remains in a 9,500-year-old grave in Cyprus. Thus far, it's the earliest evidence of a relationship between humans and felines, but it's obvious that the dead feline was feral.