If you'd have asked me a month ago whether there were any hybrid or electric cars I'd recommend you buy, you'd have been greeted with a series of questions about your daily mileage, off-street parking, annual voyages to the in-laws and so on. And then I'd have said, "no". (Or, if I didn't like you, recommended a G-Wiz.)
With the arrival of the 2015 Audi Q3, it seems apt to take a moment to consider the contributing factors in this German car maker's unstoppable rise to the top. This is, after all, a brand that was selling fewer than 20,000 cars per year in the UK in the early 1990s, compared with 142,000 in 2013.
Beijing's hot springs are feeling the chill as corporate spending cuts have seen bookings for events and end-of-year banquets dry up, forcing resorts to drive down prices in order to adapt to the new realities of the market.
The taste for high-end tea has been drying up this year, as prices have been under pressure from the government's austerity drive and anti-graft campaign in addition to a slowing economy.
The World of Suzie Wong (1960), which was the first mainstream Hollywood film to have an all-Asian cast, tells the story of an aspiring American artist who relocates to Hong Kong and falls in love with Suzie Wong, a prostitute with a "heart of gold".
German writer David Wagner this month became the first foreign writer to win a cash prize from a Chinese literary award.
Tess Gerritsen delivers another outstanding thriller in her continuing series featuring Boston police Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Dr Maura Isles.
Photographer Kurbanjan Samat isn't surprised his first book is a hit. But he is surprised at its power to counter prejudice against natives of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
In the crime fiction realm, author Patricia Cornwell's fame may be surpassed only by her brainchild and longtime heroine, forensics expert Kay Scarpetta.
As she tours the country to promote her latest novel, Ling Yang in the South, Di An is getting used to seeing lines of fans waiting for her to sign their copies of her book. It wasn't long ago that the Beijing-based author, 31, was nervous on such occasions.
"I am an ALS patient, and I can only move my head. I type with my eyes - six characters per minute. In the past 10 months, I wrote an autobiography, and I would like to publish it. I want to use the earnings to buy respirators for other ALS patients who cannot afford it and are waiting for death. Could you help me to realize my dream?"
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