It is rare to find any chief executive officer - let alone one leading a company with 800 employees - finding the time to spend three to four hours a day playing games. But Kevin Chou does.
As bus journeys go, my trip on the small green 830 Frequenta service across North Yorkshire seems a promising prospect as we rumble over the cobbled streets of Richmond and head out towards open country.
1. It's the world's happiest country: According to the most recent Happy Planet Index, published last month, which aims to measure human well-being and environmental impact, Costa Rica is the most satisfying place in which to live. It has an HPI score of 44.7, putting it just above Mexico and Colombia. Britain, on the other hand, languishes in 34th.
If you want to experience what it feels like to encounter historical figures in the flesh and hear their stories in person, the Encore Dunhuang show is for you. Staged in a desert in Dunhuang, in Gansu province, the show lets you meet, talk to and feel the emotions of figures from Dunhuang's history.
The wind blows away the clouds in a small city in Dunhuang in Northwest China's Gansu province, but it can't douse the passion of visitors swarming into three giant-tower-like buildings looking over rows of dunes, where the first Silk Road Dunhuang International Cultural Expo - the biggest cultural feast in this tourist city of less than 200,000 residents - is being held.
Chef Hu Chuanqing brings external and local culinary elements together at Hangzhou's Xanadu Resort.
Chef Bradley Hull likes to talk about food preparation as art, likening the plate to a chef as a canvas to an artist.
Gazpacho is a Western favorite in the summer and one of the best ways to use those delicious but "ugly" tomatoes that are bursting with flavor but may not be pretty enough to slice.
Fang Fang has always been an outspoken voice among the established Chinese writers born in the 1950s.
Festering alongside mountains of stinking trash under the sweltering South American sun, Cateura is a long way from the conservatories of Prague or Vienna.
The five-day Silk Road International Film Festival wrapped up on Sept 23 in Shaanxi's provincial capital Xi'an.
Acting awards are supposed to go to those who have demonstrated excellence in acting.
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