Get to know the life of Chinese people and the latest information on lifestyle, culture, food and health from africa.chinadaily.com.cn.
Another day begins with the shrill call of the phone's alarm. Where are you? Open your eyes. Turn the alarm off, a swig of water unglues your tongue and you start working out on your apps.
Barbershops enjoyed brisk trade on Wednesday, as it was a lucky day to get a haircut according to Chinese tradition.
Photographers are invited to submit their works for The Other Hundred program, a competition aimed at finding the top 100 photos of ordinary people.
Breast-feeding is hard. For Chinese mothers, the absence of a wide support system makes it even harder, according to breast-feeding mothers and medical experts.
Increasing numbers of Chinese students are opting to learn practical rather than purely academic skills overseas. A fascination with wood
China now has about 230 million people with cardiovascular diseases, in the high risk group of having heart problems and stroke. Playing with fate
With many Chinese families having only one child, parents give their babies the best they can afford, especially when it comes to milk and food.
Participants are locked in the room and they have to solve puzzles using the clues provided within a specified time frame.Barking up the right tree
The Pairi Daiza zoo is a 40-minute drive south of Brussels, set among farmland, forest and zigzagging country roads. Zoo chief Eric Domb sees it as a platform that exhibits animals, plants and people, and also civilization manifested in eight "worlds" set out over several hectares of what he calls paradise.
Feline beauty contest in Beijing will have animal-lovers purring next weekend
Some luxury labels have seen the importance of time-intensive handicraft art, trying to preserve and popularize it. Barking up the right tree
Of all the philosophies, ancient or modern, Western or Chinese, Daoism values life most dearly.