Losing the plot
2009-11-17 13:16:01
Ma Hailing is a bookworm. When not at work as an IT retailer in Beijing, she can usually be found reading or shopping for new novels. For her, the digital age could not have come soon enough.
Touch of magic
2009-11-16 10:44:34
According to the Ministry of Public Security, more than 50 million foreigners exit or enter the country on average every year, while another 5 million live here. Of these, about half-a-million call China home.
Language no barrier for Japanese translation specs
2009-11-13 15:47:26
It's the latest in eyewear for the linguistically challenged: Japanese computer-maker NEC has created a pair of glasses that double as a translator.
Tallest man unveils largest cookie in Norway
2009-11-13 10:06:30
The world's tallest living man has unveiled the world's largest gingerbread man at an Ikea outlet in Norway's capital, Oslo.
The Largest Swimwear Parade
2009-11-13 10:06:20
People in swimsuits dance during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest swimwear parade at one time, in Sydney November 12, 2009.
Couture comes to the tea cup through luxury blends
2009-11-12 15:45:09
Haute couture has come to the tea cup, with a luxury tea retailer launching collections to complement the colors, scents, trends and tastes of each season.
Chinese scholarship for foreign students
2009-11-12 11:15:56
A total of 113 foreigners have been awarded scholarships worth 85,800 yuan ($12,580) to become Chinese language teachers.
Trading spaces
2009-11-12 10:33:46
Farmer Zhou Hongxi says he can't wait to join 7,846 fellow villagers to move from their ramshackle farmhouses into free modern apartments.
The anti-swine flu holy water dispenser
2009-11-12 09:05:51
An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu -- an electronic holy water dispenser.
If couture could talk: collection charts women's lives
2009-11-11 15:46:45
Owning more than 3,000 dresses, many of them designer, many from a era long gone, is a dream for most women.
Job duds likely couch spuds
2009-11-11 11:20:17
Do you have an unchallenging job with little control over what you do? You may be more likely to be a couch potato in your leisure time, a new study shows.
A comic dynamo who draws outside the lines
2009-11-10 14:36:40
The two-volume graphic novel Abi-Sword, a martial arts epic infused with exceptional calligraphic brush skills, is being re-released 18 years after its creation to appeal to a more international audience.