While Reader's Digest has filed for bankruptcy protection, Duzhe (Reader), the most popular Chinese general interest magazine, is going strong for the 28th straight year.
Molly Fahey has a bachelor's degree in physics, a master's degree in mechanical engineering and no job since January.
Fan Popo, 24, receives a short message from his older brother that reads: "Have you won any medals?" Fan is on a flight back to Beijing from Copenhagen, Denmark, after competing in the nine-day second World Outgames 2009 in Denmark's capital, which ended earlier this month.
An online posting about his experience of picking up girls on the street has accidentally transformed a failed businessman into a professional pick-up artist.
Office worker Lin Xianhui is happily married to a woman who, like him, comes from the countryside but now lives in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. But he feels sorry for one of his college friends, who is having marital problems with a woman born in the city.
Li Haifeng has recently been dreaming of standing on a stage, caught up in the action but unable to think of his lines.
Lang Lang called him "Master Lai" after they performed a piano duet at the National Center for the Performing Arts last year. The totally blind 12-year-old Lai Jiajun let his fingers dance over the keyboard, and smiled as if he had noticed the surprise on Lang Lang's face.
Ever wondered why the wires of your earphone always get twisted when you put them in your pocket? Just log on to songshuhui.net for the answer.
A novel's reprint is usually a non-event, especially in today's saturated book market. But the reprint of Jia Pingwa's Ruined Capital (Fei Du, also translated as Abandoned City) is a big deal as the book recently emerged from underground circulation for the first time in 16 years.
The cuisine is essentially Sichuan in tone. The chef has opted for classic, yet exquisite dishes, largely embracing the traditional but with a few forays into more novel gastronomic territory.
Donald Trump argued his case yesterday for the construction of a 1 billion-pound ($2 billion) golf resort on a stretch of coast in northeast Scotland.
Legendary designer Yves Saint Laurent, who reworked the rules of fashion by putting women into elegant pantsuits that came to define how modern women dressed, died Sunday evening.
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