Marcel Heijnen, a Dutch photographer, has been living in Hong Kong for almost six years. As a foreigner in China, he is always surprised, he says.
TAIPEI - A human skeleton hangs on the wall above a creepy plastic baby head. A smiling doll stares down at the customers from a high shelf. A gramophone blasts eerie music.
Having worked in the kitchen for 26 years, Yang Jie has decided to embark on a new adventure - the 44-year-old has teamed up with two other chefs to create a "vegetarian concept restaurant" in Beijing.
Tianjin's jianbing guozi is a traditional snack that involves using a pancake to wrap fried-dough sticks dipped in a sauce, but Gu Yansheng has now given it a Japanese twist.
The Eurochestries Festival is returning to Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, for the second year in a row, as it aims to promote orchestral practice among musicians aged 15 to 25.
LONDON - BBC National Orchestra of Wales will tour China over Dec 15-21, performing five concerts in four cities aimed at fostering creative collaborations between China and Wales, the orchestra announced on Tuesday.
As the summer approaches its end in parts of China, the battle for eyeballs at cinema theaters is getting hotter with 50 new movies set to hit screens in August, up 61 percent since July.
When the second Beijing Documentary Week kicked off at the China Millennium Monument last week, 97-year-old translator Xu Yuanchong arrived in a wheelchair.
LOS ANGELES - Paramount's action film Mission: Impossible - Fallout continued to lead North American box office with an estimated $35 million in takings for the second weekend in a row.
Former Brazilian footballer Roberto Carlos was famous for his powerful free kick. Perhaps his most famous goal came in a game against France on June 3, 1997, when he scored by curling the ball so heavily that a ballboy on the touchline instinctively ducked to avoid it.
More than 100 people walk near the edge of a cliff, and some of them are extremely frightened.
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