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Zhao Mengmeng makes an album of 30 photographs taken with her dad around the same date for 30 straight years as a remarkable expression of love to her parent. Photos Provided to China Daily
For Father's Day last year, Zhao Mengmeng made her dad an album of their photos taken at around the same date for 30 straight years. The first in the digital collection is a black-and-white print that shows Zhao at age 1, standing with her dad outside a brick building, her hand engulfed in his. The last shows the pair in full color three decades later, posing against a piano and a chandelier, Zhao's arms linked at the elbow with her 62-year-old father. The album, which Zhao also posted on her micro blog, is seen as a remarkable expression of a child's love for her parents. It has since been viewed hundreds of thousands of times. A video of their story, found online, has been watched at least 2 million times.
Sunday Digest
The al-Qaida-linked gunmen killed seven foreign hostages in Algeria on Saturday before being gunned down by special forces in a final assault on a remote desert gas complex, state television said.
Sunday Special
We asked a cross-section of people if they say 'I love you' to their parents, spouses and children. Liu Xiangrui and Sun Ye pounded the pavement and found that there seems to be a generation gap as far as expressions of love are concerned.
Sunday People
Gavert Waag is the 62-year-old who introduced cross-country skiing to China - a sport that didn't exist here a decade ago. "I dream that people from all walks of life participate in the sport and enjoy it. I don't know any better way for people to entertain themselves in winter," the Swede says.
Sunday Expat
Chinese culture has become a growing feature in the Western world over the last decade, and in return European, American and other influences now abound in the major cities of China.
Sunday Image
With Psy's Gangnam Style song and dance routine being so popular it would be no surprise if more people wanted to try out the real thing: horse riding. Beijing enthusiasts don't need to travel far to saddle up. Equuleus International Riding Club, in Shunyi district, is just an hour from downtown. The club has been named the "Best Riding Club in Beijing" and "Highest Ranking Club in China" on several occasions. There are more than 90 thoroughbred European and domestically bred horses; while a professional support crew includes veterinarians, horse trainers and stable boys and girls. Since its establishment in 1999, the club has registered more than 2,000 members from China and 20 other countries.
Sunday Sports
Shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong wants to return to competitive sports, but says the driving force behind his belated doping confession was the well-being of his five children.
Sunday Life
Jesse Levinson does not much worry when he drives his prototype Volkswagen Passat around the Stanford University campus here. A computer vision system he helped design keeps an unblinking watch for pedestrians and cyclists, and automatically slows and stops the car when they enter his path.
Lifestyle Trends
ORLANDO, Florida - Imagine visitors to Walt Disney World wearing rubber bracelets encoded with credit card information, snapping up corn dogs and Mickey Mouse ears with a tap of the wrist. Smartphone alerts would signal when it is time to ride Space Mountain without standing in line.
Science and Technology
When I received the results of a routine cholesterol test this summer, I was certain there had been some kind of mistake. I'm young and healthy, or so I imagined. I work out, too, and most people would describe me as lean. Plus, I eat a nutritious diet. So why did my levels of low-density lipoprotein (also known as the "bad" kind of cholesterol) surpass my I.Q. - or, for that matter, Einstein's?
Arts and Styles
In "The Visitors," a nine-screen video installation by Ragnar Kjartansson that will have its first American showing in February, the artist lies in a pedestal bathtub almost in a trance, strumming a guitar as he repeatedly sings a refrain, "Once again, I fall into my feminine ways." Over the course of an hour his voice falls and rises, on its own and in unison with performers on the other eight screens - each seen as if in a painting, playing an instrument in a different room of a beautiful, run-down mansion and singing the same enigmatic refrain at a dirgelike pace.
Sunday Style
When British fashion designer Graeme Black was invited to work with the Chinese label 1436, initially he didn't show much interest. In early 2011, an old friend had called up and asked him: "I know an amazing company in China and they do wonderful cashmere. They are looking for a creative director. Would you be interested?"
Sunday Food
Nanluoguxiang is not generally known as a gourmet destination in Beijing, more known as it is as a tourist trap. That was why some of us were surprised by the discovery of some really good food in and around the neighborhood of the ancient Drum Tower. As prime spots in the city succumb to escalating rentals, enterprising restaurateurs are going to ground, in the ancient hutong off the main thoroughfares.
Sunday Kaleidoscope
Eight painters turn their attention to ceramics in a new exhibition, and Zhang Kun in Shanghai finds they were inspired and surprised by the process.
Travel Special
Jamaica is not only known for Bob Marley, the world's fastest sprinters and Blue Mountain coffee.
