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China Daily 30 Anniversary Edition

Battle of the bulge

[2007-06-06 07:09]

Ten-year-old Chang Tai is always hungry. The little fellow particularly enjoys wolfing down pork, chicken legs, and hamburgers. He already weighs 50 kilograms, almost 15 kilograms heavier than most boys of his age and height, and his weight problem is shattering his confidence.

IN BRIEF (Page 19)

[2007-06-06 07:09]

Life Book

[2007-06-05 07:45]

Xinhua Bookstore turns 70

[2007-06-05 07:04]

The Xinhua Bookstore was founded on April 24, 1937, in the Qingliang Mountains in Yan'an. Communist revolutionaries opened the first store at their Shaanxi Province base.

A comic take on drinking up fine-wine culture

[2007-06-05 07:04]

TOKYO: The aroma is like a rock concert, with notes of butterflies dancing over a pond and an aftertaste of Jesus Christ and his disciples.

The final chapter?

[2007-06-05 07:04]

Roaming about a bookshop used to be the favorite pastime for Huang Jiwei, a famed Beijing-based writer, publisher and avid book collector. He takes great pleasure in spending hours sauntering among the stalls and shelves, discovering interesting titles and taking them home.

Life Expat

[2007-06-01 07:34]

Great haul of China

[2007-06-01 06:36]

They are here for a good time - and a long time. When months stretch into years and life becomes a string of farewell parties for friends returning home, there comes a time in an expatriate's life when they must ask: have I gone native?

Spin-doctor prescribes eating, drinking and being happy

[2007-06-01 06:36]

When Jean-Michel Dumont first came to Beijing after whooping it up at the Brazilian Carnival in Rio de Janeiro in 1986, the capital city seemed "gray and dull". Little did he know that this would be where he would spend the next 21 years - and perhaps the rest of - his life. "I have to admit, my first impression wasn't the best one," the 46-year-old Parisian said. "But within two months, it was my favorite city."

Global village

[2007-06-01 06:36]

SHANGHAI

Life Travel

[2007-05-31 07:12]

Getting there

[2007-05-31 06:44]

Zhangjiajie City has its own small airport. There are direct scheduled flights from Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Hong Kong, though these are not all daily. The city also has a railway station with direct links to Hunan's capital, Changsha, and the Hubei city of Yichang, close to the Three Gorges Dam.

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