Phewee. I am feeling a bit wrung out because I have just got back from the battlefield - I mean the zone of moral conflict that I now enter every time I open the door of the fridge.
Learning a second language can slow the brain's aging, even if it is learnt in adulthood, according to new research.
The balmy nights of summer might seem like the perfect setting for romance but if you're trying for a baby, it may not be the best time to begin.
The lifetime ambition of many gardeners is to visit China, described by the great plant collector Ernest "Chinese" Wilson as "the mother of gardens", to see garden plants in their native habitat. That desire was satisfied by a limited-edition trip I went on last year called Footsteps of the Planthunters, parts of which can be replicated by the tailor-made travel specialist Journeys of Distinction. Its focus was on Yunnan province, where the collectors George Forrest, Frank Kingdon-Ward and Joseph Rock risked their lives and tolerated unrelenting hardships in their search for unusual plants. We visited new gardens as well as old - for parks and gardens are changing in China, as the Western world exerts its influence on horticulture and environmental awareness.
Baidu Inc, China's largest online search company, is working to develop new products that can replace the search engine to become its most recognized gateway in the mobile Internet era, said Robin Li, the company's chief executive officer.
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp will not look for a public listing within five years, although it has registered a sharp sales increase since it was established some four years ago, a senior manager of the company said.
Plans are being drawn up for a railway linking the Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture in Northeast China's Jilin province with Mongolia, an official said at the "two sessions" in Beijing.
Construction work on a large iron and steel project and a joint-venture petrochemical complex in Zhanjiang, a coastal city of Guangdong province, is well underway, Mayor Wang Zhongbing said.
China's banking sector remains solid, with the shadow banking sector well under control, Yang Kaisheng, former chairman of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the country's largest lender, said on Thursday.
Regulators will improve legal protections for bond investors and strive to reduce systemic default risks, a senior official with the China Securities Regulatory Commission said on Thursday.
The coal hub of North China's Shanxi province is striving to restructure its economic growth model amid declining coal prices and increasing ecological costs, senior officials said.
China, the world's largest energy user, is likely to have a serious excess in refining capacity amid booming domestic demand for oil products, a senior oil executive said on Wednesday.
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