The countryside is as picturesque as the culture is mysterious. For many tourists, "Shangri-La" is a synonym for heaven on Earth.
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.
In Yushu, Northwest China's Qinghai province, ecological protection has entered policy planning, including on poverty reduction.
The late author Qian Zhongshu is best known for his satirical novel Fortress Besieged.
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.
The art market in China has been cooling over the past three years, generating fewer records and a less competitive air in the salesroom.
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.
Zheng Xianchao doesn't look like a kidnapper, but his tied-up "victims" might tell you otherwise.
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.
Chiang Yomei is known to many people as the great-granddaughter of Chiang Kai-shek, the late Kuomintang leader.
Many travelers to Shangri-La, a county-level city in Southwest China's Yunnan province, will likely pass Tangdui village in Nixi township without paying much attention to it.
There's been a rise in exchanges between Chinese and South Korean cultural circles in the past few years.
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