It has been 40 years since the auto giant BMW invited celebrated artists to paint its cars. Now, Cao Fei gets her chance to join stars like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Deng Zhangyu reports.
Luxury department store Lane Crawford has turned 165. And to mark the milestone, the store, which originated in Hong Kong, has launched a monthlong campaign in China, its main market.
The United Kingdom is known for its creativity, and a recent event, the Great Creator UK Graduate Show 2015 in Beijing, showcased some of its talent.
A Canadian chef in Shanghai eagerly embraces the Eastern flavors he learned to love in Vancouver, but 'fusion' is not his game, he tells Mike Peters.
Recent news reports suggested that consumption of expensive alcohol may be showing signs of life, after shipments of cognac from France to China jumped 42 percent in the first nine months of 2015. Those figures from industry association BNIC presumably brought smiles to the boardrooms of liquor giants like LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and Remy Cointreau SA, but managers of high-end restaurants and bars in Beijing tell China Daily they aren't seeing a bump in their sales yet.
Willment Leong is among the top chefs in Thailand, specializing in French cuisine. But his most recent trip to Beijing was for the Chinese Cuisine World Championship, which was held last week with contestants from 16 countries and regions, including the United States, Italy and South Korea.
Yesteryear's pop star Mao Amin is set to hold a 'reunion' concert with her fans in Beijing, Chen Nan reports.
Most audiences on the Chinese mainland know Ouyang Nana as the teenage Taiwan actress who played the role of a high-school student in last year's romantic comedy Beijing Love Story.
Even talented people need encouragement, singer-songwriter Cui Jian says.
How do you survive alone on an arid planet 225 million kilometers from Earth? A stranded astronaut, played by Matt Damon, provides the answers in the sci-fi hit The Martian.
While most directors rely on computers to transform actors into superheroes, Xu Haofeng shoots his martial arts flicks in a more traditional way through training the star to be a real kung fu master.
If not for the earthquake on May 12, 2008, Xin Ying would still enjoy a smooth life in the small and scenic town of Mianyang in Southwest China's Sichuan province, teaching dance at the Sichuan College of Culture and Arts.
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