For someone wearing a $8,000 diamond ring, color, clarity, cut and carat are what make the gem stone valuable.
Evolving interests, changing lifestyles, rising trend of individuality stoke massive niche tourism
The singles economy - call it, if you will, the marketplace geared to serve the growing number of single consumers with customized products and services - has taken off in China, and two segments appear to be taking the lead, in terms of imagination and effectiveness.
On a tiny boat on the sea off Coron Island in the Philippines, a group of boat riders, laden with air tanks on their backs, get ready to jump. With backgrounds in different fields (engineering, teaching, baking, art, and so on), they come from different cities across China. They have all converged on this spot for the sole purpose of scuba diving.
Even as scuba diving gains momentum in China, another type of diving - free diving - is vying for the spotlight.
As diving becomes a more mainstream sport, professional exhibition operators are seeing China as a key market for growth.
In most history books, the Manchu Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) Emperor Kangxi is depicted as nursing great ambitions to make his country strong and prosperous.
It's a letter that slumbered in the desert for 1,000 years undelivered and unanswered, having been lost in transit somehow as it was on its way to a place far off in the West.
During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 a fire set off in the uprising in the Hanlin Library in Beijing destroyed copies of one of its most prized treasures: the Yongle Dadian, the world's largest paper encyclopedia, from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).
While many septuagenarians are content to live life in the slow lane, indulging in the occasional getaway and looking after their grandchildren, Yue-Sai Kan's daily schedule is one that would leave even people who are half her age huffing and puffing.
For the people of Hohhot, capital of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, it was a feast of performances like no other - ranging from Chinese acrobatics and Brazilian capoeira, to Russian dances and a South Korean drum show.
Food critic Chua Lam loves dim sum and had always dreamed of setting up a restaurant that serves true Hong Kong-style fare - one that was so good it never let him, or his diners, down.
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