History embraces nature at Pagoda Forest
2010-12-01 08:09:00
With my body feeling the effect of the city's dusty air and my bicycle packed away, safe from the cold, I once again feel the need to escape the concrete jungle and return to a more natural environment.
The world in a port
2010-11-26 10:12:25
A visit to ready-for-the Asian Games Guangzhou throws up delightful surprises, from a laid-back colonial past to frenzied contemporary trade. Mu Qian reports.
In search of beauty
2010-11-21 10:22:34
In the vastness that is China, there are still hidden spots of great natural splendor ?although you must be prepared to work hard searching. Xu Xiaomin puts on her hiking boots.
Wall offers last look at the sun
2010-11-17 08:00:08
The pre-dawn air is freezing but refreshingly clean as we rouse ourselves from our sleeping mats and shake our legs, stiff from a day's climbing and the night's hard stone floor.
Top five boutique and designer hotels in Beijing
2010-11-12 15:12:12
Tired of those characterless business hotel chains or comfort-deprived inns? The capital offers some marvelous choices for you.
Fujian's green jewel
2010-11-11 09:34:56
With a diverse landscape and a martial arts tradition rooted in tai chi, Niumulin has everything to calm the mind and soul.
Ancient town escapes city's pace of life
2010-11-10 09:37:05
With Beijing now fully enveloped in autumn, the weather is cooling off and the TV is going on.
Disney signs agreement for Shanghai theme park
2010-11-08 09:11:18
Walt Disney has signed an agreement with a Shanghai company for the establishment of a Disneyland theme park in the city, bringing its long-planned park in mainland China closer to fruition.
Cruising down the Yangtze River
2010-11-04 09:21:16
It's a changed landscape along the banks of the Yangtze, raised 100 meters in some sections after the Three Gorges Dam started operating. Freddie Cheah looks at the new views.
Autumn in Beijing, it's so good to live it again
2010-10-25 10:27:01
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Sliver of shimmering silver in stark, sulfur sands
2010-10-21 14:32:09
Water has for thousands of years directed the currents of development in Gansu province's Dunhuang city - the only desert oasis for hundreds of kilometers in any direction as the camel trots.
Hidden passages, secret texts and gold thieves
2010-10-21 14:29:59
Gansu's Dunhuang Grottos are an archaeological Aladdin's cave, Erik Nilsson says