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Mediterranean magic hopes to cast a spell over Chinese

[2016-05-11 08:04]

Chinese visitors to Portugal are its biggest spenders despite being small in number.

Record of relics

[2016-05-11 08:04]

More than a year after it published the first volume of the book series Selected Overseas Chinese Cultural Relics, the National Museum of China issued a second book in late April.

Business magnate's Chinese roots key feature of new book

[2016-05-11 08:04]

While addressing a gathering at his book launch in Tsinghua University in April, Mochtar Riady, a Chinese-Indonesian tycoon, said that even at 87, he still follows developments in the world of e-commerce and technology and is willing to share his insights on the subject.

Legal thriller Mission Hill full of twists

[2016-05-11 08:04]

Screenwriter, TV consultant and former prosecutor Pamela Wechsler skillfully eases into Mission Hill, her debut legal thriller featuring the intriguing Abby Endicott, chief of the Boston district attorney's homicide unit.

French connection

[2016-05-10 08:40]

For Chinese art lovers, the Academy of Fine Arts of France is as familiar as the distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris where many leading Chinese artists studied.

Sample Caribbean and Latin American culture close to home

[2016-05-10 08:40]

For some Chinese, Latin America and the Caribbean are regions that they may seldom get a chance to visit. So, the ongoing Latin American and Caribbean Art Festival in Beijing offers them a good opportunity to learn about the regions.

Art gives former station in US capital new lease of life

[2016-05-10 08:40]

A quirky art installation featuring 650,000 plastic balls is breathing new life into a dingy and long-forgotten former underground trolley station in the heart of the US capital.

Love of leaf

[2016-05-10 08:40]

Frankie Zou is pouring one of his housemade vermouths, this one infused with chamomile, into a gleaming crystal glass.

Porchetta makes a stylish party, Provence-style

[2016-05-10 08:40]

Chef Jarrod Verbiak is nothing if not patient. Perhaps the quietest of Beijing's highest-flying foreign chefs, Verbiak is happy to invest three full days to prepare a new signature dish for his menu at Bistrot B: Porchetta.

Global chain's latest mainland eatery keeps popular fare coming

[2016-05-10 08:40]

Since entering the Chinese mainland in 2010, the global South Korean restaurant chain Bibigo has won many fans in the country, and the company has recently opened an eighth mainland branch, at Beijing's China Central Place.

Scripting a new record

[2016-05-10 08:40]

A letter that a famed scholar wrote about 1,000 years ago will be auctioned in Beijing on Sunday. The letter, which has 124 characters, is expected to yield hundreds of thousands of yuan, giving it a very high value on a per-character basis.

Looking beyond the treasures

[2016-05-10 08:40]

The Palace Museum in Beijing, also known as the Forbidden City, wants to prove it's not only one of the country's top exhibition venues for cultural relics but also a leading institution for academic studies.

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