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Uncorking Potential

[2017-09-08 09:51]

South African winemaker Justin Corrans embarked on a journey into the unknown to practice his craft in September 2015. He flew over half of the hemisphere to take part in a two-year winemaking challenge in a country he knew nothing about. His destination was the Helan Mountains' eastern foothills in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, which hosts some of the country's best-known wineries.

Mooncakes from heaven: Hong Kong's sweet obsession

[2017-09-08 09:51]

HONG KONG - It is one of Hong Kong's most treasured food traditions - the buying, giving and eating of mooncakes to mark Mid-Autumn Festival, which is celebrated by Chinese communities around the world next month.

Playing Wise Women

[2017-09-08 09:51]

A group of Swedish students came to the National Academy of Chinese Theater of Arts in Beijing to study Peking Opera in 1987.

Use mushrooms to purify water

[2017-09-08 09:51]

Mushrooms, wastewater and sunlight. For Nanjing University professor Zhu Jia, these three items hold the key to producing clean and fresh water by harnessing the power of the sun.

John Woo's tribute to Ken Takakura

[2017-09-07 07:17]

Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo has been a longtime admirer of the late Japanese actor Ken Takakura. But Woo did not get a chance to work with Takakura, who died in 2014.

Wall-crawling superhero looks to steal hearts in China

[2017-09-07 07:17]

In Marvel comic books, Peter Parker is a New Yorker. But should the famed character, also known as Spider-Man, not have a New York accent? The answer is complicated.

Bending to his will

[2017-09-07 07:17]

The subway passenger hears his mobile phone go off. He then reaches into his shirt pocket for a pen, unrolling a small sheet from it to take his call.

New dance show features animals in Chinese zodiac

[2017-09-07 07:17]

One by one, the five dancers emerge from the shadow of a 20-meter-tall desk, toward the center of the stage.

Two villages come out of poverty with help from online sales

[2017-09-07 07:17]

It's a hot afternoon when Zhong Qilan walks out of his house sweating in the sun to check out his navel oranges that cover about 10 hectares of a mountainous area in Jiangxi province.

Days of glory

[2017-09-06 07:59]

Bi Yalin, 22, stares at the screen of her mobile phone and stabs furiously at it with her fingers. She is completely engrossed in an online, multiplayer battle game.

Play at work, in small breaks

[2017-09-06 07:59]

Video blogger Jiang Haitao starts most of his days at 5 pm. After his "breakfast", he is online from 7 pm to about 2 am - most of which is spent on the popular multiplayer game King of Glory.

Bridge of language links both banks

[2017-09-06 07:59]

NEW YORK - The number of US K-12 students learning Mandarin has doubled to around 400,000 in two years, says Morgan Jones, chief operating officer, US-China Strong Foundation.

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