Perhaps the most frightening thing about Ancient Exploration Park isn't T-Rex.
Though a relatively new phenomenon, privately owned gymnasiums are becoming more and more popular in China. Finding the right one was easier than anticipated, Matt Prichard writes
I had the kind of childhood I wish more Chinese children could have. I grew up surrounded by exquisite art works from China's long and dazzling history. I can still remember as a child holding a Qing Dynasty vase in my small hands. Cool to the touch even on a hot summer day, the vase was intricately carved with lotus blossoms.
When rock musician Su Yang traveled from Beijing to Yanchi in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region last winter, he listened to Liu Shikai playing the sanxian (a three-stringed plucked instrument) and singing old folk songs.
The magical supergroup The Illusionists is coming back to Broadway for a new holiday show - this time bringing a time machine.
The lobster in front of me is big and virile. It looks a bit like Donald Trump: Orange. Cranky. Confident - and determined to have the last word.
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.
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