HONG KONG - John Pearce has returned to Sydney from a week in Hong Kong beaming, with one clear message of where to invest his next dollar: the Chinese mainland.
In what way does George Smiley, the squat, diffident serial cuckold with a lifetime's devotion to the Intelligence Services, resemble John le Carre, the dashing, rangy, sometime ladies' man who said goodbye to the Circus 50 years ago in favour of living by his pen?
It's 25 years since Martina Cole wrote her first bestseller, Dangerous Lady, now reissued in an anniversary hardback. She's just about to publish her 24th book, Damaged, the fourth to feature her tough-minded heroine DCI Kate Burrows, and you do not need a crystal ball to predict it will nip to the top of the charts. The bestselling British female crime writer of modern times has now sold more than 16 million books.
"This is my first trip in Hungary, but I love it more than any other country I have been to before," Joe Chen, an award-winning actress from Taiwan, wrote on her Weibo micro blog. The TV series in which she stars, Love Actually, was filmed in Budapest, the country's capital.
Popular TV series and movies sometimes unconsciously boost tourism in the location where they were filmed.
When introducing the Chinese leek in a short video on his micro blog, Shi Jun says its white flower is often used in making a sauce to go with hot pot.
Xu Lai, vice-president of guokr.com, considers it important to keep science close to daily life by discussing hot topics online.
China's ever-growing fascination with fitness has triggered a marathon craze among the country's health-conscious middle class, but lax management has often meant race organizers have struggled to keep pace with the demand for their events.
Long-distance running can be a hazardous business, however a group of altruistic Beijing doctors are making China's marathons are an altogether safer experience.
Organizers of a new Asiawide marathon series are hoping to tap in to China's running boom by tempting runners to races at exotic locations across the continent.
Men Anping, a Beijing-based domestic maternity nurse who cares for mothers and newborn babies, has just agreed another job offer to go to Australia for two months.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
Raymond Zhou
Op Rana
Berlin Fang
Zhu Yuan
Huang Xiangyang
Chen Weihua
