The lauded multicultural drama Babel hit screens at selected cinemas in Beijing on Tuesday. It is the latest Oscar-nominated flick to open in Beijing this year and will be screened with Chinese subtitles.
When ministers from different countries meet to talk shop, they usually converse using predictable lines of vague, hyper-positive "diplo-speak". But Monday's discussion between the Chinese and Indonesian ministries of culture was a different take on the same old song and dance.
Ten years ago, when Michelle Garnaut visited Shanghai as a guest chef for the Peace Hotel, she was dismayed to find a set of curtains blocking the view of the city's most famous landmark, the Bund.
An increasing public interest in Buddhism has boosted tourism to Buddhist sites.
"For quite a long time, I devoted all my energy to amassing a fortune. Now, I've found that a bigger fortune has not given real joy and happiness to me and my family," Chen Xiaoxu, a millionairess and famed actress, told local media before taking the tonsure (head-shaving ceremony) last month at a Buddhist monastery in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin Province.
The world of red carpet galas and the financial sector are usually mutually exclusive scenes. But not today. At a Beijing securities company, Kevin Gu is in the process of showing his colleagues just how dapper he can be.
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