Within five minutes of ordering three deluxe thalis at the large and bustling Bharawan da Dhaba in Amritsar, India, a waiter brought us round steel trays filled with our $3 lunch.
Handmade Chinese noodles, a variety of dumplings and other traditional countryside Chinese snacks are items that you'd least expect to be served at top-end luxury hotels.
"It felt pretty weird," was how Hong Kong actress Chau Hoi Mei responded when asked about her opinion on cuts to The Empress of China, a hit TV series.
Filmmakers and critics from all sides of the Taiwan Straits gathered in Beijing to begin a major review of last year's Chinese cinema.
Al Pacino delivers his best performance in years in The Humbling, a tragicomic look at a veteran stage and film actor on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Robert Redford took A Walk in the Woods to his own Sundance Film Festival.
The biggest scoop Filipino journalist Jaime FlorCruz got was in 1991, when he reported Jiang Qing's death days before China's official pronouncement.
Placido Domingo will star in a return to Los Angeles of Woody Allen's first opera production, Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, the opera house said on Tuesday.
In many imaginations - and in the movies - the great trade routes from East to West are dotted with caravanserais, way stations built about every 30 kilometers, or the distance a loaded camel could cover in a day.
When you are a Westerner and you have lived for a decade in China, you're bound to have many stories to tell.
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