Wudang with panache
2011-07-24 13:30:32
Wudang is more than just another martial arts Mecca in China. They say "seeing is believing", and inspired by all those kungfu movies I was weaned on, I decided to experience the fascinating attractions of Wudang Mountain.
Stylish sides
2011-07-24 13:30:09
They were uniformly green, with grim-faced soldiers astride most of the time. But now, they are trendy collector's items popular with the expatriate community.
36 hours in Honolulu
2011-07-22 17:22:11
Honolulu has never been hotter, and not just because it's July.
Marilyn Monroe made of toast
2011-07-22 15:15:00
A portrait of Marilyn Monroe made from 7,000 toasts displayed at a shopping mall in Shanghai.
Play under the water in Tianjin
2011-07-22 15:13:11
Visitors participated in an underwater sports meeting in Tianjin on July 21, 2011.
Charles Dutoit pushes for inter-Korean orchestra
2011-07-22 13:58:03
The chief conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra wants to create a joint South and North Korean youth orchestra.
Journalistic ethics, an oxymoron?
2011-07-22 11:37:54
Britain's phone hacking scandal may have few obvious parallels in China, but it has thrown up a host of questions on the role of the press.
'Swan Lake' at 2nd Xinjiang Int'l Folk Dance Festival
2011-07-22 11:13:46
Russian dancers perform "Swan Lake" at the second China Xinjiang International Folk Dance Festival on July 21, 2011.
At the margins of life
2011-07-22 11:07:45
Writer Yang Jiang spent her centennial birthday on July 17 with self-effacing mo-desty.
Indian trilogy writer strikes 'black gold'
2011-07-22 11:05:26
Indian writer Amitav Ghosh's novels sometimes read like an encyclopedia. His newest, River of Smoke (John Murray) could, just as well, be read as a scholarly discourse on the life and times of mid-19th century Cantonese society.
Sino-Russian border island opens to Chinese tourists
2011-07-21 15:27:01
One hundred and fifty Chinese tourists landed on the Chinese part of Heixiazi Island, a Sino-Russian border island in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, on Wednesday morning.
S China's island province receives more foreign tourists
2011-07-21 15:25:50
The number of overseas tourists visiting south China's tropical island of Hainan grew 12 percent year-on-year to 383,800 from January to June.