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Holiday Travel

Bliss in vibrant Lhasa

[2014-07-04 08:44]

Cultural shows in the capital of the Tibet autonomous region fill a tourist's evenings with delight while roadside shops serve up some delicious and inexpensive local delicacies. Bidisha Bagchi explores.

Savoring find of chariots and horses

[2014-07-04 08:44]

Archaeologist Wang Yongbo, 61, still clearly remembers the day 25 years ago when he and his colleagues discovered a large ancient chariot and horse burial site in Linzi, Shandong province.

Truth be told

[2014-07-04 08:44]

A few minutes after my plane touched down in China, the woman who picked me up from the airport looked at me very seriously and said: "You are very beautiful." "Thank you", I said, bewildered. "I think I'm going to like China." Don't worry, it didn't go to my head, because not long after that I was also told my hair was a mess and my skin terrible. One new friend asked what sort of fashion labels I was interested in, before looking me up and down, patting me on the arm and saying: "I think you like comfortable clothes." My language teacher taught me the grammatical structure for "become" with the sample sentence: "Belle is becoming fat".

Seeing ability, sensing possibility

[2014-07-04 08:44]

I once made a blind man cry.

The girl with a sociopath's heart

[2014-07-04 08:44]

A friend of mine was to meet a man on a blind date, and the man sent her a PowerPoint presentation on himself beforehand.

Inked to compete

[2014-07-04 08:44]

China's national soccer team once again failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup this summer. But fanatic Chinese fans who have stayed up all night - eyes glued to star-studded stadia in Brazil - have seen one sight that's very familiar.

Sky high

[2014-07-03 07:20]

Jia Yang, 44, has two children. One goes to a middle school in Beijing; the other is on the moon. The trials of parenthood have been far more arduous with the second child for Jia, deputy chief designer of the Chang'e-3 lunar probe, who led a team to develop China's first moon rover, Yutu, or Jade Rabbit. Chang'e-3 launched on Dec 2, 2013, landing on the moon after a two-week voyage, becoming China's first soft-landing on an extraterrestrial body. On Dec 15, Yutu rolled out onto the lunar surface. The rover and the lander took pictures of each other for the family album.