The apricots look suspiciously green to guests touring the orchard at the Brickyard Retreat, but to head chef Randhir Singh they look perfect.
As one of the earliest foreign businesspeople to venture into China after its opening-up, 68-year-old Belgian business strategist Gilbert van Kerckhove has not only witnessed, but also played an important part in, the country's tremendous transformation over the years.
Where is the least likely place that criminals would dare to go in the world? Probably China's Shenzhen. Why? Because it only needs a few seconds to locate a criminal among millions of people after the city's surveillance cameras were embedded with intelligent chips in November.
A week after Song of the Phoenix opened, it garnered a paltry 3 million yuan ($454,000) in box-office takings, barely enough to cover the marketing cost. Now, a month after its May 6 opening, it has collected 85 million yuan, a rare feat for an art-house film. What happened in between was an eye-popping act by its 63-year-old producer, a man whom I have known for a while, and whom I talked to recently in a post-screening dialogue.
At 77, Ian McKellen surprised a 900-strong Shanghai audience with his excellent memory in a recent master talk in Shanghai Theater Academy.
It's no surprise: Ang Lee has become the biggest sensation of the ongoing 19th Shanghai International Film Festival.
The Chinese film and TV industry wants better "foreign voices" on overseas screens.
Hu Ge is no stranger to cameras.
The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China published a white paper titled "Assessment Report on the Implementation of the National Human Rights Action Plan of China (2012-15)" on Tuesday.
As the Palace Museum in Beijing stages the ongoing Faberge Revealed exhibition - courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in the United States - displaying treasures owned by former Russian royal families, more US museums want to share their collections with their Chinese counterparts.
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