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Life Culture

Drawing stories from a deep well of real-life experience

The life of Liu Defang, a storyteller from Central China's Hubei Province, is as dramatic as his immense collection of folktales, legends and jokes.

Unearthing family roots

In Peter B.C. Huang's vision, a Chinese person will be able to discover his or her ancestral line going back several centuries just by typing their surname into a website. He may be talking about the future, maybe several decades later, but he's already working on this goal.

Life Expat

Global Village

Beware of the stereotype

Jutta grabs front-row seats in designer paradise

SHANGHAI: German designer Jutta Friedrichs always had a feeling she would end up in Asia. Initially she thought she would live in Tokyo, but fate had other ideas.

Love at first byte

Sometimes lyrical, other times bizarre, the English menu translations of Chinese dishes - when they are even attempted - often provide the foreign diner with scant clue as to the ingredients of the dish. For new expats, or those with limited language skills, hunger pangs can mean wandering the streets in search of a picture menu, or relying on local friends to accompany you for meals.

Special Supplement

Port builds on its strengths

With a focus on the coal, petrochemicals, ore, and grain transportation and container service sectors, Longkou Port is building on its strengths as one of the important ports in the Bohai Bay region.

Longkou Port maps out ambitious blueprint

Longkou Port in East China's Shandong Province is expected to invest 8 billion yuan ($1.05 billion) during the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010), to build itself into a large harbor in the Bohai Bay area.

Life Health