Stars make country fashion accessible

A new generation of country musicians - mostly young and female - is changing the look of fashion in Music City with clothing lines designed with fans in mind.

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Spicy touch

A culinary entrepreneur taps her Trinidad roots to bring new flavors to Beijing's food scene, Mike Peters reports.

Award honors HK chef Chow

May Chow, chef and owner of Little Bao in Hong Kong and Bangkok, has been named Asia's Best Female Chef 2017, an award that is part of the Asia's 50 Best Restaurants program, sponsored by S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna.

Plucking new heart strings

Tang Dynasty (618-907) poet Bai Juyi described the sound of the pipa as "pearls landing on a jade plate".

Capturing feelings on film year after year

Liao Hongni burst into tears during the shoot.

Taking design off the drawing board

Roger Owen finds the engineering students he met on his most recent visits to China were a lot more talkative than those he first encountered in the mid-1980s.

Will Smith channels grief for his latest role

Will Smith had already begun researching his role for Collateral Beauty when he learned that his father was terminally ill.

Promoting culture via the big screen

As a lackluster year for the movie industry is about to end, the spotlight is now on an upcoming fantasy epic, The Great Wall. The $150 million Sino-US coproduction, believed to be the biggest budget film shot entirely in China, is also being seen as a new way to tell a Chinese story to the world.

Can Jackie Chan win with his foray into the revolutionary genre?

A symbol of Hong Kong action films, Jackie Chan is never short of death-defying stories. And in his latest film, Railroad Tigers, the 62-year-old kung fu giant again tests his limits: He gets onto a moving train to combat his enemies.

Song of spring

Chinese pop singer Zhang Liangying's life has been dramatic lately. In October, she announced her wedding to Feng Ke, CEO of her management company, Show City Times.

New festival on nature films

When Huang Zizhen saw a Global Forest Watch screenshot featuring the planet's forest cover, she felt sad that China's tree density appeared to be less than some of its neighboring countries.