Isinbayeva toasts success with whine

MOSCOW: The old adage states it can be lonely at the top, but the desolation is starting to get to Olympic pole vault champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva.

Sharapova hoping to steady seesawing season

SAN DIEGO, California: Maria Sharapova comes into the San Diego Classic this week looking for a fresh start to her seesaw season.

Life Culture

A woman's place

Professors, social activists and farmers gathered at a seminar in mid-July to talk about the changing role of women in Chinese society. According to some academics, Chinese women were venerated in ancient China, then were oppressed and enslaved, and in modern times, have gained more respect.

Toasting the success of a golden brew

If you are exiled to a barren island and can take only one condiment, what would you pick? Salt, pepper, chili and oil may be clear choices for some. However for the people in Shaoxing, in East China's Zhejiang Province, they will answer without hesitation: "Our local huangjiu, of course."

Keeping a language alive

Nuzi, or "women's characters", were found in Jiangyong, Central China's Hunan Province in the 1980s and amazed anthropologists around the world.

Life Expat

Is AA for you?

Below is a list of questions, from the website of Alcoholics Anonymous, that are aimed to help you determine if you have a dependency on alcohol.

Global Village

SHANGHAI Love rat exposes letter

Omer finds his groove with culture club

Dealing with rules and regulations, Chinese style, required a change in attitude for Omer Icge, a Turkish national who has lived in Guangzhou for over two years.

Drowning in drink

Some expatriate drinkers find the realities they encounter in China are too hard to face. For many of them, the country becomes the place where they bottom-out. Others, who are grappling with alcoholism when they arrive, find a whole new world of challenges to their disease here.

Life Travel