'It is not a job. It's a passion, a real sickness!" It is the early hours of the morning and Giovanni Sacchetto is explaining why chilly autumn nights find him trailing by moonlight through the woods around Alba in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. Sacchetto, 64, and his beloved companion Dora, a sprightly Lagotto Romagnolo gundog, are on the hunt for white truffles, the hard-to-find fungi famed among foodies for their earthy scent, and their equally heady prices.
For five days in Hong Kong, they ate. And drank. And ate. And drank.
If you enjoy dining at fine Italian restaurants, chances are you will soon have a white-coated chef at your elbow, joyously shaving paper-thin slices of fresh white truffle on top of your favorite pasta.
When Richard Hart, an expert in healthcare management from the United States, is asked about his China connection, he starts from the beginning.
Suitcases, snow, a red sofa, wooden stairs and a raven come together in The Fugitive, a multimedia musical production. This is a world where the late Austrian composer Franz Schubert's famous piece Winter Journey - about a poet pining for his lost love in the cold and gradually dying - mixes with images based on German poet Wilhelm Mueller's words.
Back in the day, before cars could drive themselves and phones could send stickers and animations, a Japanese phone company released a set of 176 emojis.
A year ago, Zhang was considering quitting the entertainment industry after a string of failures.
Do you sometimes picture yourself swimming with whales or mingling with celebrities in a party setting?
Singer Jay Chou dons producer's hat for movie inspired by legendary ultramarathon runner Kevin Lin, Xu Fan reports.
Three "blue men" tap on a marimba-like installation made with PVC pipes and play the intro of Chinese pop song Little Apple, which arouses giggles and applause in the audience during the New York-based Blue Man Group's debut in the Chinese mainland in Guangzhou..
Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata is considered the composer's most technically challenging work, but it was no problem for Murray Perahia, who played it at a recent recital in Beijing.
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