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BALI, Indonesia / BEIJING - Premier Wen Jiabao and US President Barack Obama vowed to keep bilateral ties stable on Saturday, amid subtle tensions between the world's two largest economies.
Sunday Digest
BALI, Indonesia / BEIJING - Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday faced foreign challenges on China's stance on the South China Sea issue candidly, stressing Beijing is willing to work together with Southeast Asian nations for a code of conduct in the waters.
Sunday Special
For Wang Yuanyuan, her stage adaptation of the 16th-century Chinese novel, Jin Ping Mei, or The Golden Lotus, was her most frustrating, exhausting, but also most satisfying, work.
Sunday People
'The early Qing and the Communist government unified China under incredibly difficult circumstances. Western and American scholars were very caught up in the reasons for China's weakness then, but they didn't give a sense of how many times this has happened before. "Was it a regular event? Was it bound to separation and reconciliation again? Or was it possible to change China from the outside?"
Sunday Expat
'Faguo Baba Faguo Baba Faguo Baba!"
Sunday Image
The Berlin Zoo recently welcomed a new addition to its hippo population. The baby was presented along with its mother to the general public earlier this month. Zookeepers say that the calf, despite not having a name yet, is very popular with visitors and has the potential of becoming a local celebrity. New hippo calves usually weigh in between 27 and 45 kilograms at birth. They learn to swim even before they learn to walk, so as to stay near their mothers in the water. Native to Africa, the hippo is among the largest mammals in the world. Mature animals can weigh more than three tons, and only the elephant, whale and rhinoceros are bigger. It is a naturally aggressive creature, especially when it comes to protecting its young. Currently, the hippo is threatened in the wild, because hunters prize both its meat and its ivory canines.
Sunday Sports
TULSA, Okla. - It had been 10 years and 10 months since the plane crash that killed 10 people associated with Oklahoma State's men's basketball program - long enough for the healing to begin but recent enough to rush old memories to the surface when news of another plane crash broke.
Sunday Food
The stylish Central bar and restaurant, Shore, is celebrating a successful first year by launching a premium steak house on its second floor.
Sunday Style
For a number of years, 10 Glenealy was the address of my neighborhood bar. Concealed by banyan trees along a steep slope from Lan Kwai Fong, it was the perfect pit stop for a nightcap on the way home. Last spring, bamboo scaffolding signaled a change. What eventually emerged was the whitewashed facade for Hulu 10: a fashion boutique that takes elements of Chinese culture and updates them for today's trends and lifestyles. The brand's mission is to preserve and promote Chinese culture for the Chinese. Even its name, meaning "bottle gourd", is significant, since the hulu fruit is organic, light and resilient.
Sunday Kaleidoscope
During a lightning tour of the Louvre, Musee d'Orsay and Pompidou Centre last year, I made sure I hit all the art history 101 favorites. Theodore Gericault's Raft of the Medusa was high on the list, and finally seeing it was worth traipsing up and down the Louvre in search of it.
Sunday Travel
There are few places in the world with people as friendly and scenery as beautiful as the Philippines. Of the 7,107 islands that make up the archipelago nation, Boracay is one that has some of the best beaches the country - or even Asia - has to offer.
