Former car mechanic Denizart Simoes has been cycling across 50 nations for the past 14 years, from the southern tip of Patagonia, where South America meets the Antarctic, to Egypt. The Brazilian plans to set a new Guinness World Record next month on Chinese territory with the aim to break German traveler Heinze Stucke's cycling record of 400,000 kilometers, set in 1995. It took Stucke two decades to achieve the milestone.
British twins of Chinese ethnicity, Lisa and Helen Tse, owners of Chinese restaurant Sweet Mandarin in Manchester, cooked lunch for Premier Li Keqiang and British Prime Minister David Cameron when Li visited Cameron at his official residence in London on June 17.
It was early morning when 30-year-old Altengaro bid farewell to his 600 sheep and 50 horses on the pasture at Xilin Gol League, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and set off for Beijing. After a 12-hour bus ride, he went directly to a small studio with his hubosi (a Mongolian plucked stringed instrument) on Dongsi Street, where his "brothers" were rehearsing for their first tour to North America.
In the eyes of Zhang Fan, Shen Lihui and Song Ke, the three men behind China's major outdoor music festivals, the nation is finally getting a range of opportunities to enjoy live music.
The Tony award-winning musical Avenue Q was set in a fictional New York block and was based on everything the Big Apple offers to exuberant young people looking for life's purpose.
On May 21, Du Limei was getting acupuncture therapy when it occurred to her that most people are born on a bed and die on one.
The conspicuous absence of any mention of a nominated film at a news conference for the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival made headlines across the nation.
At a forum of the 17th Shanghai International Film Festival, Jiang Wen managed to steal the show by making an unannounced, last-minute appearance.
Down by the dock, in an old gray stone warehouse, stands the newly re-crowned "Best Restaurant in the World 2014", tucked among construction sites in the bohemian Christianshavn quarter of Copenhagen. Noma's Danish-Macedonian head chef and co-owner Rene Redzepi, chewing an apple, offers some dark brown sauce for me to try.
Go down a narrow dark alley and then up a flight of stairs in an old building in Lan Kwai Fong - a popular area for eating and drinking in Hong Kong - and you'll find Fa Zu Jie, or French Concession, a private kitchen serving innovative Shanghainese in French-style cuisine.
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