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Covering the stars

Given the number of independent Chinese fashion designers who have risen to prominence in the last few years, you would think they would be trampling over each other in their fight to dress screen celebrities for fashion magazine covers, or the red carpet.

Government pledges to clamp down on terrorism in Xinjiang

Sunday News

President Park inspires students

The visiting Republic of Korea President Park Geun-hye told of her teenage experiences in a speech to students at Tsinghua University on Saturday and encouraged them to overcome life's difficulties.

Bank regulator calms market fears

Further reforms on track to sustain growth

Reinventing the economic wheel

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Sunday Special

Models walk, money talks

Cover girls aren't just chosen because they are fabulously beautiful. The fact is money talks.

Sunday People

Long way from home

London is full of Chinese faces - students, professionals and tourists.

An advocate for public education about private parts

World Scene

Sunday Expat

A man of the people

One day in 1993 Arie Boeve walked out of his apartment near Beijing's Asian Games Village. Pointing at a white guy walking past him, the Dutch man uttered something that surprised even himself: "Wow, there's a foreigner," he shouted.

Envoys get their kicks from martial arts

Nepalese dreams live on in Tibet

Sunday Image

Aqua act

The underwater world seems to inspire people's imagination, and aquariums around China offer witness to this. Accompanying fish and other marine creatures, performers in the underwater world amaze their audiences. Among the performances are various cartoon characters swimming among the colorful marine life, mermaid shows, and shark and dolphin feeding presentations.

Sunday Sports

I can cope with favorite tag, says Murray

Andy Murray insists he can cope with the pressure of being a favorite for the Wimbledon title after the world No 2 swept into the fourth round in emphatic fashion.

No one wants to be beaten by grandma, says Navratilova

Winning without doping was impossible - Armstrong

Score Board

Room for Froome

Leading contenders for title

The week in words

Sunday Life

Detours on road to clean fuel

Jonathan S. Wolfson and Harrison F. Dillon started out in mythical Silicon Valley fashion. A decade ago, the two college friends began working in Mr. Dillon's garage, growing algae in test tubes in a quest to use biotechnology to create renewable energy. Then they found a small group of investors.

Inspired by birds, made for humans

Humanities prove a hard sell during hard times

Lifestyle Trends

A city awash in bicycles

AMSTERDAM - About 6:30 weekday mornings, throngs of bicycles, with a smattering of motor scooters and pedestrians, pour off the ferries that carry bikers and other passengers free of charge across the IJ harbor, clogging the streets and causing traffic jams behind Amsterdam's main train station.

New sizing for bras accounts for shape

Science and Technology

A sleight of hand conceals demolition

TOKYO - In this packed city with outdated high-rises and tough recycling and environmental restrictions, Japanese companies are perfecting what might be called stealth demolition. Some buildings are dismantled from the top, the work hidden by a moving scaffold; others from the bottom, the structure being slowly jacked down.

Russian spaceport declining

Privacy proving elusive for donors of DNA

Arts and Styles

'Jungle Book' poses concerns

CHICAGO - As the music director for a stage production of "The Jungle Book" was leading an 11-piece band through a show tune, there were musicians seated around him on sitar, vina, tabla and Carnatic violin. To his left, a jazz sextet sat on chairs with music stands. These players rolled through the Dixieland rumble of the show's "I Wanna Be Like You" and the sunny swing of "The Bare Necessities," as sax and sitar traded improvised solos, and tabla and drums found fresh grooves together.

A tome to rival the artist

Aging Digital Artworks Are difficult to restore

Sunday Food

Eating Lingnan style

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Cantonese cuisine is best enjoyed when shared with a group of people. Whether they are friends, family or colleagues, there is so much variety that you are bound to find something you covet - and other fare that you only want a quick taste of.

Red Obsession travels well and shows good taste

Discovering Down Under

A taste tour of Shanxi-style food reveals a few cutbacks

Sunday Style

Homegrown, and proud

Jiang Yi isn't a rookie, not in terms of experience. His boutique is a short distance from the copycat paradise that is Yashow Market in Beijing's Sanlitun shopping, bar and restaurant enclave. And it's been there for well over a decade, growing at its own unhurried pace, unaffected by the area's exploding changes. That is, until four months ago. One of Jiang's signature East-meets-West brocade designs appeared on the cover of the February edition of Chinese Esquire, worn by none other than Zhang Ziyi, currently China's brightest export to Hollywood. The cover showed Zhang posing samurai-style, showing a tantalizing glimpse of the blood red lining of the gold and black robe.

Off the cuff design

Sunday Kaleidoscope

Form follows information

Wang Lin spent four years studying art history at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, where he learned how art evolved. It made him think about China's contemporary artists, who they are and the stories behind their works.

Science fiction becomes fact

Beijing's got rhythm 'n' blues

City guide

Sunday Travel

From horses to hot spa

'So, do you want to tolt?" asked our Eldhestar guide Kristin. It was a wild and windy day out on the lava fields of central Iceland, and we had been riding for about an hour at this point, slowly winding our way out from the stables and up toward the hot springs in the Reykjadalur valley. The route had been rough and rocky but our Icelandic horses were sure-footed and steady as they picked their way up the valley.

From wetlands to premieres in a day

Airline news and deals

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