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Youku working with Michelle Phan to drive its business

It is no secret that internet personalities these days can be as effective as expensive marketing campaigns. And China's major video portal Youku wants a slice of the action.

Early-bird breakfast

I'm not normally one for early starts. But the breakfast in Yangzhou is something to wake up early for, I'm assured by my Chinese colleagues.

Taking profit out of polluting

Two things have made US environmental expert Daniel Dudek very happy in the past few weeks.

Program helps kids to turn trash into pencils, soccer balls

Two waste bottles for a pencil, 500 grams of unrecyclable waste for a notebook, and 15 kilograms of waste paper for a soccer ball or basketball - the equations are cemented in the mind of Nyima Dbangmo and all other students at the Second Middle School of Zadoi county, in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Qinghai province.

Island ecologists struggle to protect lemurs

Threatened by habitat loss and hunting, Madagascar's lemurs, a critically endangered species, are finding refuge in a private sanctuary on this vast Indian Ocean island.

Feast in store for fans

China's movie scene, which has seen a slowdown in the past months, could soon see a revival thanks to a flood of foreign blockbusters.

Memories of valor

During the Long March, a pivotal battle was fought by the Red Army when 22 soldiers risked their lives to cross a 103-meter suspension bridge under fire from the Kuomintang forces.

Chinese video firm makes short clips on history, culture

The office of an internet startup in eastern Beijing's Sihui area feels quieter than many other such buildings, thanks in part to the 43-year-old entrepreneur Li Feng.

A boy comes of age in achingly powerful Moonlight

Moonlight is as wistful a film as its title might suggest. Director Barry Jenkins, in only his second feature, has created a singularly powerful and masterfully restrained work of art about a young man's coming of age in South Florida told in three different stages - child, teenager and young adult.

Socially Relevant Themes Get A Stage

On the day the Fourth Wuzhen Theater Festival opened, on Oct 13, Dario Fo died.

People's lives form focus of works at Shaanxi fiesta

Xi'an, once the country's capital, and the starting point of the ancient Silk Road, is holding the country's largest celebration of art - the China Art Festival.