While a timepiece reminds anybody of the irreversible flow of time, a good film makes time stand still. Yet, with a common commitment to preserve precious cinematic history, a watch manufacturer and a film festival are ushering in their fourth year of collaboration.
Amid the swirl of an early 1960s party scene in Clint Eastwood's latest project, an adaptation of Jersey Boys, the hit Broadway musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, a television screen flashes an unexpected face: young Eastwood, himself, in black-and-white.
When Aaron Ramsey scored the winning goal during overtime for Arsenal in the English Football Association cup final last month, 75-year-old Liu Hongwen stood inside London's Wembley stadium, holding back tears amid the cheering crowd. "My heart almost stood still before the final whistle," she says.
Japanese architect Norihiko Dan has worked on many major buildings, but he now has his sights set on a smaller project - to build a modern Buddhist Zen temple in China. Sun Yuanqing reports.
"To see China as it is, not as we wish or fear it to be" was the catch-cry of well-known US diplomat and China expert Charles W. Freeman, Jr.
The latest H&M Loves Music collection was unveiled last month, as a special campaign designed for fans from China, Singapore and Malaysia.
Q: What made International Channel Shanghai produce such a TV documentary in collaboration with Kuhn's team?
Sitting on the stairs in front of the post office next to Guangzhou Railway Station, 47-year-old migrant worker Cheng Jiping vacantly stares at the bustling square in front. He has been hungry all day.
A police officer in Inner Mongolia may come across as a no-nonsense man - but get him talking about his favorite topic and you will soon learn he simply loves horsing around. Alexis Hooi reports.
Weng Xiuju, 79, has been living in Guangde Temple for 13 years. As a Buddhist follower, she gets up at 3 am every morning, attends the temple's morning class with other lay Buddhists and helps in the kitchen during meal times.
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