Spring Festival with a classical twist

A variety of shows will be held in China to celebrate the coming Spring Festival, while various artists and ensembles will tour abroad. Among them, two concerts will be held at the Golden Hall of Musikverein, in Vienna, this week. Both feature Chinese music and artists, with a local orchestra in Vienna.

Life Expat

With rhyme and reason

SHANGHAI: On a crowded Shanghai bus, two African American students from Nanjing University chat to each other in English. But their conversation is interrupted when one of the students, Morgan Alexander Jones, AKA MoJo, overhears a local woman's comment to her boyfriend: "Notice how many black people there are here," she says.

So many pieces of the planet crammed into one borough

The borough president of Brooklyn, Marty Markowitz, is a busy man - on a normal week, Markowitz attends 55 public events.

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How the other half lives

Life Travel

Close encounters

It was said that the first foreign visitors to Yongding County, in southwestern Fujian Province, were CIA agents who were spying on some "suspicious Chinese missile bases" in the 1960s.

'Guest people' become hosts

The Hakka are a subgroup of the Han, who live predominantly in the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Fujian. Their ancestors are thought to have arrived from northern or central China centuries ago.

Homage to Wenbi

We arrived in Tengchong after a 50-minute flight from Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, to the city of Baoshan, and a four-hour drive on winding mountain paths.

Take a punt on Chengdu: you can't lose

The capital of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, Chengdu is a perfect place for "losers". The old saying warns, "Don't visit Sichuan when you are still young."

Life Health

Toupee or not toupee

BERLIN: First the forehead gets higher, then a spot at the back of the head clears - hair loss is for many men the worst thing they could possibly suffer as they get older.