Shanghai is cracking down on its most tenacious fashion trend. In preparation for the 2010 World Expo, the municipal government has launched a campaign to eradicate running red lights and wearing pajamas in public.

Style never out of fashion

While rice is a staple food for southerners, (defined as those living south of the Yangtze River), the northern Chinese prefer noodles and dumplings.

Ingredients: (makes 30 to 40 dumplings):

Jamie and Bobby Deen have followed in the footsteps of their mother, American television cooking personality Paula Deen, and launched their third cookbook.

Ingredients (serves 4):

It is clear from her surprised and somewhat amused reaction that veteran pop singer Chyi Yu has never been questioned so closely about her voice.

A Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano China Limited Edition was sold on Wednesday night for nearly $2 million to an anonymous bidder from Shanghai at an auction in Beijing.

Beijing

Li Xiaoke's print exhibition is titled Trails - The Immortal Memory of Tibet.

The exhibition, Chinese Graphic Design of the 20th Century: A Documentary, tracks the social changes and the development of design in China, through posters and ads in magazines and newspapers, besides other design-related books and objects. A highlight of the display is dozens of rarely seen propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.