Sales of PM2.5 detectors are booming in China following frequent rounds of smog in northern parts of the country.
It is a family tradition for 50-year-old Beijing resident Wang Jianying and her family to travel to Sanya in southern China's Hainan province every Spring Festival for the warm and pleasant weather, but this year there is a new factor: heavy smog in the north.
Ten years ago, Peng Jindong, then 21, set up a small e-store called Mmaicco to sell street-dance wear on Taobao, China's largest online marketplace operated by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
Shanghai Huarui Bank, the first private bank in the city, is speeding up its lending to high-tech startups, said one of its senior executives.
Seoul, South Korea resident Cho Yong-moon, 75, spends nine hours a day, five days a week using his free pass on the city subway to shuttle parcels back and forth between clothing and jewelry stores.
On Dec1, Mike Steward, a cyber engineer from Boston, the United States, tweeted about Tsingtao: "I'm in love with this beer. It's so amazing and full of life; life is in it."
Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing expects property prices in the city will rise "a little bit" this year, even as the government takes steps to cool the world's costliest real estate market.
Despite tough talk by President-elect Donald Trump about a possible trade war, Chinese investors are hungry for US biotech and they have money to spend.
Novak Djokovic has no pretensions to being a super spy but the number 007 has got the Australian Open champion "pumped" ahead of the year's first Grand Slam.
Last week, Destanee Aiava became the first player born this millennium to win a main-draw match at a WTA event.
Canadian starlet Eugenie Bouchard said she has learnt to take no notice of the "haters", revealing she has spoken with fellow young gun Nick Kyrgios on how to handle the intense scrutiny ahead of next week's Australian Open.
With a stunning injury-time equalizer, Real Madrid salvaged a 3-3 draw with Sevilla in the Spanish King's Cup to set a Spanish record of 40 consecutive matches unbeaten on Thursday.
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