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Bling Bling Festival

The annual Hong Kong Jewelry and Gem Fair glitters with color this year, as Gan Tian finds out.

What the well-heeled are wearing

"A girl is just as hot as the shoes she chooses", according to style and music icon Lady Gaga. Gan Tian shows off some heels that will raise the temperature.

A journey through time

Expo brings the world to the Chinese people. When thousands of visitors from all parts of the country leave the Expo site tired and hungry every evening, they surely know more about the world than they did that morning. And I am one of them.

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Visions of a lost civilization

The 46-year-old author Chi Zijian, from Heilongjiang province, has already won several awards, including the Lu Xun Literature Prize, and the 2008 Mao Dun Literature Prize, for her best-selling novel, Right Bank of the Ergun (E'erguna He You'an).

Magic mediums and their messages

The Ergun River plays a crucial role in Chi Zijian's novel Right Bank of the Ergun. A tributary of the Amur River, it was established as the Sino-Russian border by the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689. The folk tales recounted by the characters tell how they were long ago driven from their ancestral homeland on the left bank by the Russian army, and are now "exiled" to the right bank.

Moving on to greener pastures

The year was 2006. Jiang Juechi finally decided to leave her Tibetan students on a remote grassland in Sichuan province and head home to East China's Anhui province.

Korea meets pop art

He has chosen to live in a neighborhood nicknamed "Oriental Hawaii" and his apartment on the top floor of a 14-story block has a panoramic view of the scenic surroundings of greenery and water.

Louis Vuitton embraces Chengdu's children

French fashion house Louis Vuitton is investing in the future of orphaned children in Chengdu with plans to build a 1.5 million yuan ($221,100) multi-functional activity center at the SOS Children's Village in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province.

Integrating waterfronts into city life

The redevelopment of Shanghai's Bund waterfront provides a lesson in urban engineering, but there is still room to improve the spatial integration of the city's housing and office space, particularly in Pudong, according to a leading executive from Germany's $10-billion HafenCity project.