Brick by brick

Streaming videos...draw top talents

Streaming websites are using short online videos as testing grounds to understand young audiences. Han Bingbin reports.

China's newest superhero named after a breakfast wrap

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a ... breakfast wrap.

Darkdraft sheds light on joint ventures' bright prospects

The Sino-US joint-venture film project Darkdraft vows to illuminate the future of cross-border cinematic cooperation.

Speculation rife as Cannes countdown begins

With the Cannes Film Festival set to open in just over a month's time, speculation is swirling over which films - and which top actors - could be getting their moment under the French Riviera's sun.

Big bucks in funny business

With zealous predictions that its box office will rake in a record 3 billion yuan ($479.7 million), the producers of the upcoming comedy Lost in Hong Kong have raised eyebrows.

Crossing the pond, landing with a thud

There was a palpable dull thud of disappointment that accompanied the return of the imperial entourage of Zhen Huan to her homeland.

TV show traces Maritime Silk Road

Chinese navigator Zhai Mo will appear in a new TV show in which he and his team, as cultural ambassadors of the new century, sail the old Maritime Silk Road, one of the earliest ancient trade routes connecting East and West.

Beyond peppercorns

When I was making plans to visit Chengdu, my Western friends wanted to know if I was going to see pandas. (Yes.) My Chinese friends asked if I was planning to eat a local delicacy: rabbit head. (Uh ... maybe? But on Easter weekend?)

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Immigrant goes from dishwasher to Michelin-starred chef

Shortly after Maria Marte arrived in Spain from the Dominican Republic in 2003 she started working as a dishwasher at Madrid's Michelin-starred Club Allard restaurant - and just a decade later she has taken over as chef.

Vigilantes for safe food

Young researchers want to raise awareness of what people eat in China. Xing Yi reports.