The Chinese music market, once seen as chaotic, is now viewed as having enormous untapped potential, thanks to the country's online user base of 650million people and a growing number of licensed digital services.
Lebanon's Caracalla Dance Theater is now exploring the story of the Silk Road - traveling through history and geography to revive an ancient path that has united people of different cultures.
It's so much like a movie backdrop that it has actually served as several.
If you're grumpy because the line is too long, then a Japanese cartoon character may arrive to cheer you up.
An elf school in Iceland. A hospital for falcons in the Middle East. A museum in Independence, Missouri, for artwork made from hair.
Yang Chenxi, an 8-year-old from Zhejiang province's Huzhou, recently spent half of her summer holidays with her grandparents in the countryside in Suqian, Jiangsu province.
Old soldiers never die. That is, if they're remembered.
The Chinese post photos of overseas vacations, cute pets and gym selfies every moment of every day - but social networks can prove powerful if users understand how to distill collective wisdom.
The main problem for George Wong is finding space to store and display his growing collection of artwork.
Fram Kitagawa believes that fine art is not independent of ordinary people's lives. In 1994, the 70-year-old Japanese exhibition curator changed Tachikawa, an abandoned military area on the outskirts of Tokyo, into an experimental art zone.
We are constantly fed - and overfed - with posts and photos of who's traveling where thanks to social media. Something very similar happens for fans of the bistro Ginger by the Park in Shanghai: They have a stalker-like knowledge of where its owner has been traveling throughout the year via the menu, and they are likely to be overfed with the food inspired from those trips.
The country's wine industry and media gathered in Beijing last week to celebrate with Fongyee Walker, who has become the Chinese mainland's first Master of Wine resident. Walker is co-founder and managing director of Dragon Phoenix Wine Consulting.
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