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Chinese films loom large at UK festival

[2014-10-09 07:56]

Two Chinese films are expected to be top draws at this year's British Film Institute London Film Festival, which kicked off on Wednesday night Beijing time.

Too fun for cnn?

[2014-10-09 07:56]

Network mixes personality shows with news in quest to compete, David Bauder reports in New York.

Twin Peaks set tomake 2016 comeback, 25 years later

[2014-10-09 07:56]

Warm up the coffee and break out the cherry pie: Twin Peaks, the Golden Globe-winning cult 1990s television series from David Lynch, is making a comeback.

Call of the wild

[2014-10-09 07:56]

A Chinese star uses her rising global profile to fight for endangered animals, Zhang Yuwei reports in New York.

Gone Girl wins North American box office

[2014-10-09 07:56]

Gone Girl turned up safe and sound at the top of the North American box office in its debut weekend, just ahead of horror flick Anna-belle, industry data showed on Monday.

A living language's life

[2014-10-08 07:59]

If a picture's worth a thousand words, the world's last pictographic language says volumes about the traditional Naxi culture.

Loving features of New York

[2014-10-08 07:59]

This is a book destined for coffee tables in Tribeca lofts, Upper West Side apartments and Brooklyn townhouses. With stoops.

Writers and readers go mobile and social at Wattpad

[2014-10-08 07:59]

Allen Lau considers himself living proof that love of good writing is alive and well in the age of streaming video and terse text messages.

Snake craft

[2014-10-08 07:59]

A Mangshan expert continues his work with the viper that made him famous, Xing Yi reports.

Easy Rawlins eyes Hearst-like case

[2014-10-08 07:59]

Walter Mosley evokes the curious turns of the Patty Hearst kidnapping saga and the fractured culture of that era in Rose Gold, his latest Easy Rawlins crime thriller.

A ming landmark

[2014-10-08 07:59]

Tianyige is the country's oldest surviving library and is set to become a top scenic spot. Pay a visit before it gets too crowded, suggests Sun Yuanqing.