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Goings On

Foreign faces: laowai TV stars tell all

[2011-03-06 07:48]

While the country's manufacturing industry may be taking a hit with exchange rate fluctuations and the housing market has its ups and downs, one industry is undoubtedly growing: entertainment. The country has more than 1 billion television viewers and at least 350 million households have television sets. China's film industry has also enjoyed a boost in the last few years. Last year, there was a 15 percent increase in locally produced films compared to 2009, according to media research firm EntGroup. China's film industry saw revenues of about 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) last year, up from 6 billion yuan in 2009.

Seven Days

[2011-03-06 07:48]

MARCH 6 / BEIJING

From the low life, makings of high art

[2011-02-27 07:58]

LONDON - For all its chandeliers-and-Champagne style, opera has long enjoyed a voyeuristic interest in low life. Half its heroines are fallen women, briefly flourishing in sin and paying in the end. But opera's love affair with sleaze took on a new dimension when Anna Nicole Smith, the buxom Playboy centerfold and tabloid-culture princess (who died of an accidental drug overdose in 2007) took to the lyric stage.

Underground, Latin songs of love, longing

[2011-02-27 07:58]

Luis Tigre boarded the uptown D train with two colleagues one recent morning to go to work. But unlike the other commuters on board, the three had already reached their job.

Cubism that struck a chord

[2011-02-27 07:58]

It's 1912, and Pablo Picasso is in Paris, thinking: All right, what's next?

List aims to reverse drivers' bad habits

[2011-02-21 07:37]

A new ploy by transport chiefs to tame Beijing's unruly road users may be too soft to curb the behavior of most motorists, experts told METRO on Sunday.

Prosecutors get a say in sentencing of convicts

[2011-02-21 07:37]

Prosecutors can now suggest sentences for convicts as part of innovative efforts to make trials more transparent.

'Search engine' to ease parking wrangle

[2011-02-21 07:37]

While most people are focused on reducing the weight of traffic on Beijing's congested roads, one innovative city official has come up with a way to deal with cars when they are off the streets.

Getting married later in life is a modern trend

[2011-02-21 07:37]

Marrying later in life is a very modern trend, not just in China but also in Europe, Japan and the United States. That's why articles in Chinese newspapers this month referring to people still not married by 30 as "leftovers" seem so, well, old-fashioned.

I'm resolved to see more during Year of the Rabbit

[2011-02-21 07:37]

Since moving to Beijing in August 2006, I've tried hard to take in its myriad of cultural riches. But despite spending most weekends (and many evenings) over the past four years doing that, I'm surprised by all that remains to be seen and experienced.