CAIRO - At first glance, the Cairo art installation appears to be a mural in red and purple hues, of three people at a table. Then, one of the subjects pours bright pink paint from a teapot into a cup. Another lights a cigarette, and the scene comes into focus.
Despite the vastness of China's car market, the percentage of dealers who believe they will be profitable this year has fallen to less than half of last year's figure due to inventory concerns.
After the birth of SUV, minivans disappeared from many American driveways. Family sedans appear to be headed down a similar road.
China is set to encourage domestic electric car battery manufacturers to expand their production scale, following the introduction of a new action plan for the industry in Beijing on Thursday.
Chinese and United States marques have to offer better cars if they want to sell more in China after their models received the most complaints in the country last year.
I almost came to grief the other day in a small park not far from where I live when a boy trying to ride one of those yellow rental bikes you see all around Beijing lost balance and crashed to the ground just in front of me.
One day in 1999, when Dona Rosa was singing in Rua Augusta, a pedestrian street in downtown Lisbon, she met the well-known Viennese artist and impresario Andr�� Heller, who was looking for a fado singer for a TV production of an Austrian television company.
When writer Bi Feiyu landed in Beijing recently for four book events and to do a show on China Central Television's hit program Readers, his presence created a stir among his fans, not unlike the one in London five years ago when he was there for an international book fair.
HOHHOT - Historical records compiled more than 600 years ago about Genghis Khan's empire have been translated into the Mongolian language, experts said on Tuesday. The records consist of 15 books with 210 volumes and chronicle the rise and fall of the Mongol empire. They were compiled in 1370 as ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), which ended the Mongolian reign in China.
Zhuang Yuguang, an 81-year-old expert in ancient buildings, felt he was taking a trip back in time after reading Linpan, which was recently published by the Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House.
Dumplings are so popular - even far beyond China - that they seem nearly incapable of surprise. At least until you enter One Hundred Kinds of Dumpling Garden, as Helen You's New York restaurant is known in Chinese.
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