Expo Special: Shanghai gears up for machinery trade fair

The seventh International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Construction Vehicles and Equipment, bauma China 2014, will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center from Nov 25 to 28.

Expo Special: Stories of bauma China

He is a reporter for the construction machinery industry, has written about bauma China since 2008 and is impressed by the 30 percent increase in exhibition space during the past four years. He is a digging machine manager and a visitor to bauma China so has seen Chinese construction machinery companies grow more competitive and become more international.

Capital gatekeeper

The walls and gates encircling Beijing were mostly demolished in the 1960s, closing a door on an important part of the imperial city's history.

Diaspora display

A plain gray building situated on the edge of a hutong, or alley, in downtown Beijing barely registers in the eyes of passersby. Inside, however, its contents represent hundreds of years of the history of Chinese voyagers as they established their homes overseas.

Mayan exhibition shows 'similarities' with Chinese

A mysterious atmosphere builds up inside an exhibition hall as Chinese visitors look at the artifacts from the ancient Mayan civilization from several centuries ago and at a place more than 10,000 kilometers from China.

Epic artistry

Eight years after his first solo show in Beijing, Russian sculptor Dashi Namdakov has returned to the city with art pieces that focus on mythology and history.

Display reveals faces of prehistoric humans

Her clothes are made from fur, hemp and nettle and for decoration she sports ivory and bone beads. She has dark hair worn in dreadlocks, tattoos and a penetrating stare. Dubbed "the woman from the Pataud shelter", little is known about this figure from prehistory - except how she might have looked.

The sporting life

After putting on a catwalk show, designer Alexander Wang always runs out from backstage and returns quickly. His latest collaboration with H&M is sportswear.

Topshop a hit with online fashionistas

It was Nov 11, Singles' Day in China, and its busiest online shopping day. Chen Jing, a 30-year-old accountant in East China's Jiangsu province, bought a 299 yuan ($49) black dress and a 520 yuan gray coat. In Beijing, journalist Cui Bowan picked a 139 yuan T-shirt and a leather jacket for 1,539 yuan. Both ordered the apparel of Topshop, a British fast-fashion brand, on the cellphone app for China's online retailer, Shangpin.

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Stealing scenes, winning hearts and minds

The classic tale of Robin Hood and his merry men is well-known around the world.

Zhu Xiaomei plays Bach in first China tour

Famed pianist Zhu Xiaomei was livid with ticket scalpers on her way to the Shanghai Symphony Hall. Unaware of who she was, they were trying to make her pay for admission to one of her own concerts - at inflated prices, of course.