A lush new coffee-table volume celebrates an expat's love for her adopted home and the food she came to love there, Mike Peters reports.
It's no secret that mobile Internet has reshaped the Chinese dining scene, with the popularity of online-offline service among people from all walks of life in big cities.
Matin Zamani, a young Iranian importer of handmade rugs to China, tells Mike Peters how the Internet age has caught up with the centuries-old craft.
Though Sam Smith has mingled with Hollywood's elite thanks to the success of Writing's On The Wall - the Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe-winning James Bond theme song - he feels like the glitz is just a bonus. It was getting the OK to do the song that remains close to his heart.
Yoko Ono has been a prominent artist for decades but at age 83 she is again answering a familiar question. No, she didn't break up The Beatles, she says.
Young Iranians are fans of kung fu and Chinese are fascinated by 'mysterious' Iran. Now, a film coproduction gives both sides more to bond over. Xu Fan reports.
While romantic films received a poor reception in China last year, a recent hit may point to signs of a revival of the genre, which was once a big-screen favorite.
The UK film industry is looking at China for future alliances, a top BAFTA official tells Wang Kaihao.
For Hollywood actors and their teams seeking an Oscar, the work of promoting the film can be as exhausting as actually shooting it.
Celebrities may have flocked to the front rows of the recent London Fashion Week shows, but some designers are swapping the runway for Hollywood's awards season red carpets as the fashion world seeks new ways to draw attention.
In his latest work, writer John Man focuses on a general who is probably as relevant today as he was nearly a thousand years ago, when the Silk Road linked China to the Islamic world. Andrew Moody reports.
For readers like Zhang Qin, born in the 1990s, it's news that in 1978 there was a movement against flared trousers.
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