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Echoes of history and rapid change

[2016-11-09 07:31]

Walking along Karl Marx Alley in Berlin, a first-time visitor to the city from Beijing may feel a strange sense of familiarity. The buildings, built in Soviet style but with modern facades and the broad roads clearly remind one of Beijing's streets and its architecture.

Luedi Kong gives Monkey King epic the German treatment

[2016-11-09 07:31]

Switzerland-born Eva Luedi Kong appeared with a glass bottle of Chinese wolfberry tea at her book launch at the Frankfurt Book Fair in late October.

Preserving a slice of heaven

[2016-11-09 07:31]

The countryside is as picturesque as the culture is mysterious. For many tourists, "Shangri-La" is a synonym for heaven on Earth.

Tourism boom threatens Vietnam's 'Tonkinese Alps'

[2016-11-09 07:31]

At the top of Vietnam's Fansipan Mountain, throngs of giddy tourists wielding selfie sticks jostle for a photo op on the once-remote peak in the Sapa region, famed for its breathtaking views across undulating rice terraces.

Green on the go

[2016-11-09 07:31]

In Yushu, Northwest China's Qinghai province, ecological protection has entered policy planning, including on poverty reduction.

Translator recalls meeting Qian Zhongshu

[2016-11-09 07:31]

The late author Qian Zhongshu is best known for his satirical novel Fortress Besieged.

Bono's agency finds wide online gender gap

[2016-11-09 07:31]

Almost a third fewer women than men in the world's poorest countries are connected to the internet and the gap is set to widen, limiting access to life-changing opportunities, an anti-poverty group said on Tuesday.

Classy fare in cool market

[2016-11-08 07:25]

The art market in China has been cooling over the past three years, generating fewer records and a less competitive air in the salesroom.

American figurative artist Katz makes a splash in Shanghai

[2016-11-08 07:25]

At 89, American figurative artist Alex Katz is active and working. He paints everyday in his home-studio, the top floor of an artists' cooperative building in SoHo, New York, where he moved in 1968.

Grab that crab

[2016-11-08 07:25]

Zheng Xianchao doesn't look like a kidnapper, but his tied-up "victims" might tell you otherwise.

Art in orange: Chef's modern twist on ancient dish

[2016-11-08 07:25]

Over at Yong Yi Ting, chef Lu Yiming is busy creating his own crab feast. The Chinese restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental in Shanghai's Pudong district was among the city's restaurants that were awarded a Michelin star this year. Another of his restaurants, the vegetarian eatery Fu He Hui, also snagged one star from Michelin, making Lu the only chef in China who runs two Michelin-starred restaurants.

Breaking out

[2016-11-08 07:25]

Chiang Yomei is known to many people as the great-granddaughter of Chiang Kai-shek, the late Kuomintang leader.

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