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President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a document signing ceremony in Moscow. Alexander Nemenov / AFP
China's development creates opportunities instead of threats, President Xi Jinping said on Saturday. In his first overseas policy speech in Moscow, Xi presented Beijing's view on current international situations, explained its foreign policies and how it views relations with Russia.
Sunday Digest
The current economic resurgence is only "temporary" as China's growth has shifted into a medium-speed gear, a senior researcher said on Saturday.
Xi is Visit
Like many other late 20-somethings in Shenyang, Vera and Tomara Kulebyakina dream of buying an apartment in the city.
Sunday People
For Aldo Fallai, a one-time painter and art teacher, it took just an impulsive whim and "a very young age" to grab a camera and shoot images for six pages of the fashion bible Vogue some 40 years ago. But to be the photographer of the earliest and some of the best campaigns of style luminaries such as Giorgio Armani, Salvatore Ferragamo and Valentino, the now 70-year-old Italian says it's more about talent, or passion, or creativity ...
Sunday Expat
As the Beijing Olympics captured the attention of the world in 2008, Brian Dowrick was in China's capital working behind the scenes as an animation supervisor for the event. It was an exciting time and an insightful one for Dowrick, who through the experience realized the need for a quality animation school in China.
Entrepreneur Special
For Charles Yeung, success in business is all about attitude.
Sunday Sports
A few days ago, newly-elected Chinese President Xi Jinping wished Brazil good luck for the 2014 FIFA World Cup while being interviewed by a group of foreign journalists, and his love of the sport reminded Chinese fans of 2009, when he visited Germany and expressed his desire to lift China's soccer.
Sunday Life
Brook Drumm, a bald, goateed father of three who lives outside Sacramento, California, has big aspirations for the Printrbot, a desktop 3-D printer kit he designed that, like a number of other 3-D printers, uses heated plastic - applied layer by layer to a heated bed by a glue-gun-like extruder - to turn designs created on a computer into real objects.
Lifestyle Trends
SEVILLE, Spain - Alicia Marquez raises her arms high above her head to get her students to look up while they stamp their feet. She claps her hands hard to keep them in rhythm. To teach flamenco here in the epicenter of the dance, she finds she must rely more on showing than telling: Though the 10 women in her class are all accomplished dancers in their 20s and 30s, only one is Spanish.
Science and Technology
PARIS - When Bas Lansdorp began dreaming more than a decade ago about establishing the first permanent human colony on Mars, his primary focus was not on overcoming the technological challenges. It was the business model.
Arts and Styles
The last time Justin Timberlake released an album, in 2006, Barack Obama was the junior senator from Illinois, Jay-Z and Beyonce were not married, and iPhones did not exist. It was just a few weeks before Taylor Swift's debut album set her on the path to become perhaps the last old-fashioned pop superstar. Since then industry decline has all but eliminated the need for Justin Timberlakes, or Taylor Swifts.
Sunday Food
Small plates have become a trend in Hong Kong recently and it is easy to understand why: It is the same concept as dim sum, only for a later crowd. Sharing a casual meal with many different dishes to sample over a few glasses of wine is a fun way to spend an evening with friends or family. And for singles or couples who are watching their waistlines, the portions are perfect.
Sunday Kaleidoscope
You may be able to take a man away from practicing architecture but you can't take the architect out of a man who is already one by training. Such is the case with Arthur Chan, whose day job is architect and founder of DPWT Design.
Sunday Travel
I rushed through the turnstiles and an attendant waved me into the front seat in the world's first Transformers theme park ride that is about to take off at Resorts World Sentosa. "I hope you don't mind my joining your family," I said to the group surrounding me as I squeeze into the last spot available. I noticed that they all had 3-D glasses on and I asked where I could get mine. "They gave them out when we boarded - you should ask someone," the dad replied.
