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Wet and wild

[2015-08-10 08:10]

On Aug 1, as many as 30,000 people took part in a dating game that has since attracted a lot of negative attention.

Apps turn dates into meetings of many

[2015-08-10 08:10]

A crop of dating apps in smartphone-addicted Asia is offering to recruit friends for group dates or send along a chaperone to steer the course of romance.

Calling jet-setting couch potatoes

[2015-08-10 08:10]

Chinese TV and cinema are producing celebrities who aren't people.

Out with the old, in with the mew

[2015-08-08 08:08]

It's no stretch to say that, when it comes to China's indie music scene right now, quirky is definitely in. So Danish alternative rock outfit Mew should feel right at home when they make their debut in China this month.

Is breastfeeding in public vulgar or a necessity?

[2015-08-08 08:08]

What do you think of breastfeeding in public? Awkward? Uncivilized? On August 1, there were more than 10,000 mothers doing this at the same time around the world.

Guess who's coming to dinner?

[2015-08-07 08:32]

Yan Chengying rose at 4 am on a Saturday in July and kept herself busy through the day preparing a 14-dish dinner - not for her family or friends, but for eight strangers who had already paid for the food.

Spice island

[2015-08-07 08:32]

Indigenous plants of Sri Lanka have attracted traders - and food lovers - for centuries. Liu Zhihua sits down at a Beijing food festival to sample an Asian cuisine that's not well-known in China.

Festival highlights Yunnan cuisine

[2015-08-07 08:32]

Yunnan, the province that includes 25 ethnic minority groups, is China's gold mine of culinary diversity and tradition. The Four Seasons Restaurant of Minzu Hotel has brought together a team of professional chefs from the southeast province to give Beijing foodies a feast of the region's food through Aug 24.

Taming the green beast - and the baijiu beast

[2015-08-07 08:32]

In the funny way the world works, I was drinking absinthe every night during a recent trip to Switzerland, and was immediately invited to sip it again when I return to Beijing.

Box-office magnets

[2015-08-07 08:32]

Forbes' latest list of top-earning actors features Hollywood, Bollywood and Chow Yun-fat.

Old traders' temple is banker's opera venue

[2015-08-07 08:32]

Cheng Yuanna took a deep breath as she walked to the stage at Zhengyici Theater, believed to be the only preserved wooden theater of its kind in Beijing with more than three centuries of history.

Stage show will bring Steve Jobs back to life

[2015-08-07 08:32]

Since his death in 2011, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been the subject of documentaries, books, a film and even a graphic novel.

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