In an online video, two musicians play the violin and the bass in Brooklyn, New York. Placed in front of them are several glass jars. One is labeled "slow down", one "fast forward"; others say "Lady Gaga", "Bach" and even "Michael Jackson".
There is a joke going around town that Malaysia is being salvaged by a Chinese star whose extramarital affair has finally taken the heat off the airline mystery.
Xu Deguang still often reminisces about chanting songs to lead boatmen as they hauled barges through dangerous shoals and rapids along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
Zhao Xiumei turned to wickerwork in 2001 after being laid off from her mining job in Shandong province's Zaozhuang, where the economy slumped after its coal reserves dwindled.
The screen overlooking New York's Times Square - the "crossroads of the world" - today shows a dreamlike Chinese landscape.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal's flow seems to follow the direction of fortune - especially since its ancient glory is being reconstructed after being destroyed in World War II and 85 sites along the canal have jointly applied for UNESCO World Heritage status.
Chaya Walkin Small always wears two ornaments around her neck: a pair of 70-year-old gold cufflinks and a silver medal that she got nine months ago.
For San Francisco resident Hedy Durlester, the story of how her Jewish family escaped from Nazi-occupied Europe to Asia had been kept quiet for years. Her parents never wanted their daughter - 3 years old at the time - to remember the fear they lived through.
Alpinist Phentog, the first Chinese woman to ascend to the peak of Mount Qomolangma (known in the West as Mount Everest), died of complications from diabetes in a local hospital in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, on Monday.
Every film company wants to make hits, but not every one of them is ready to engage in marketing and sales maneuvers so outlandish many deem them barely legal.
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