I was inching slowly forward in a queue at the Palace Museum, the Forbidden City, in Beijing last weekend. Awaiting inspection was a scroll painting from the Song Dynasty (960-1279). The couple next to me began musing about the figures in the painting.
Japan's Chitose Abe takes familiar fashion to unexpected paths. Her much-talked of brand, Sacai, now has its first store in Beijing. Sun Yuanqing reports.
Some people call fashion a religion. For Chiang Mai-based Chinese designer Zheng Qing'er, religion is where her fashion begins.
A new report on overfishing of popular seafood species in Asia has spurred Hong Kong eateries to serve up more sustainable fare, Mike Peters reports.
British adventurer Bear Grylls is globally known for his long-running survival and outdoor-adventure shows, such as Man vs Wild and Born Survivor.
Nearly 28 years ago, when Tony Choo enrolled in the Singapore Hotel and Tourism Education Center, a famous hospitality school, he learned Western cooking.
Many countries are struggling to achieve what China has done, the editor of a leading international journal tells Liu Xiangrui.
A man and a woman act in front of a dozen cameras as audiences watch on a large projection screen on a stage in Beijing.
Queen Elizabeth II or American actor Tom Hanks? A new porcelain bust of the British monarch based on a confectionary box really takes the biscuit for some art critics.
When Lu Chuan received a request to direct a film based on the hit novel Ghost Blows Out the Light, the award-winning director was stumped.
China's struggling animation industry has been seeking attention and financial support for a while now.
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