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Hospitality

Rooms with a different kind of view

[2013-09-21 08:20]

Trapped in a dark and locked room with no recourse to anything but some seemingly irrelevant objects - a broken chair, some torn concert tickets and cryptic music - you can either wait for the call of death or crack the clues and get out of this hell.

Factbox

[2013-09-21 08:20]

If you have been longing to challenge the thrills and tension inside the dark locked room, you might love to try out some of the sealed chambers in Beijing the editors picked out for you.

Pushing kids up the pecking order

[2013-09-20 15:58]

Wang Yi, 33, a post-80 generation father working in the IT industry, sends his 2-year-old daughter to an early education center at a shopping mall each Sunday. "I want her to meet and communicate with other children," he said.

Opinion divided on benefits of Baby dips

[2013-09-20 15:58]

Swimming courses for babies and toddlers are making a splash at the moment as more and more parents are sending their babies and toddlers to swimming classes.

Home baking heating up

[2013-09-19 07:49]

Liu Qiuhong, 34, has her own recipe for being a popular mother. Home baking desserts and sweets such as cookies, biscuits and cheesecake has brought her closer to her daughter, friends and relatives, especially at parties or celebrations.

Foreign chains responding to rising demand

[2013-09-19 07:49]

Light green external paint, large, wide windows and Western-style decorations give the air of a European store to bakeries seen throughout much of China. But they are part of high- and medium-end chain Tous les Jours, from South Korea.

Conference: Big data and how it will drive growth

[2013-09-18 07:49]

Companies need to make better use of databases to sharpen their edge in innovation, experts said at the Patent Information Annual Conference of China in Beijing last week.

Hunan plan says patents crucial to improved society

[2013-09-18 07:49]

A recently released plan by the Hunan provincial intellectual property office envisions "an information-based society with resource conservation and eco-friendliness" realized in part through integrating patents in the local government effort.