After nine years of playing on the fringe, the Asian Tour is returning to China in a big way.
China could see the rise of the next Feng Shanshan within five years.
INDIAN WELLS, CALIFORNIA - Forget the comeback talk; Roger Federer is back.
KUALA LUMPUR - The Badminton World Federation (BWF) on Sunday announced a new tournament structure, with increased prize money, as it looks to raise the sport's profile and ramp up revenues.
LOS ANGELES - Most of the basketball world booed when the Cleveland Cavaliers rested their three best players on Saturday.
Lucia di Lammermoor, a coproduction by Russia's Mariinsky Theatre and the National Center for the Performing Arts, will be staged in Beijing from April 9 to 12 as the opener for the NCPA Opera Festival.
WASHINGTON - The Kennedy Center, the giant arts complex in Washington, recently announced a new bid to shake off its staid reputation with a festival of risque and genre-blurring performances.
For most Chinese tourists, Colombia represents picturesque scenery, Latin American culture and the magic realism of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez. They can actually do a tour called Gabo's Route to places where he lived and join gastronomical tours to taste the dishes he mentions in his books.
Princess Cruises will carry a group of Chinese celebrities aboard its newest luxury vessel, the Majestic Princess, on its maiden voyage to Italy, at the end of March.
If it had not been for Fan Jinshi and her team, the world cultural heritage at Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes in a remote Chinese desert might have long been destroyed by sand, weather or humans.
With a postgraduate degree, Shen Haimei could have chosen to make a fortune doing a regular office job. Instead, she has chosen to work with manure and offer organic fertilizers to farmers, free of charge. Shen, 45, an overseas returnee, is pursuing green agriculture in Harbin city in northeast China's Heilongjiang province.
MONACO - Monaco is the team to fear when the Champions League draw is made on Friday.
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