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  • It pays to do your homework before renting in China

    2015-09-25 08:02

    When relocating, there are few things more stressful or horrifying than having to find a rental home in China, an unpleasant chore in an industry of cheats and profiteers.

  • Future of history starts in the East

    2015-09-18 07:43

    Historians' efforts to avoid having their research too colored by a Western point of view have been successful on the whole, says Robert Frank, a French historian and secretary-general of the 22nd International Congress of Historical Sciences.

  • China's survivalist revival

    2015-09-18 07:43

    One commenter asks whether radiation from the sun could turn the Ebola virus into a zombie plague. He is dismissed and jeered in the comments, as a discussion on how to reduce the weight of a "bug out" bag picks up steam.

  • When learning turns into a big drama

    2015-09-11 07:32

    In a classroom of a two-floor building located in the Chaoyang district of Beijing, 25 children perform the drama The Lion King.

  • All the very best of British

    2015-09-11 07:32

    Doing a good turn for a friend 12 years ago turned out to be a life-changing act for William Vanbergen.

  • Fingerprints to come before footprints

    2015-09-11 07:32

    The European Union's delegation to China recently announced that Schengen nations will require Chinese visa applicants to provide biometric data beginning Oct 12.

  • Floating life of a Qing Dynasty oddball

    2015-09-11 07:32

    There are few greater curios in classic Chinese literature than Shen Fu's Six Records of a Floating Life (浮生六记 fú shēng liù jì), a remarkable book that gently refuses to inhabit any particular genre, instead veering from memoir to gardening manual, to eulogy, to travelogue, through to Qing dynasty (1644-1911) social document, but it is perhaps best thought of as a moving, even mystical, love story.

  • Marathons set for race to the top

    2015-09-05 07:46

    Two months before the 10-kilometer mini-marathon began at the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing on Aug 22, the competition had already started for amateur runner Li Zhiqiang from Qingdao, Shandong province.

  • China reforms sports industry to cash in on running

    2015-09-05 07:46

    The Chinese government's plan to raise the annual revenue of the national sports industry to 5 trillion yuan ($785 billion) by 2025 is workable, according to a leading industry insider.

  • Revived opera speaks of war's tragedy

    2015-09-05 07:46

    More than 75 years ago, after Japanese troops had invaded China, a tragic story that is said to be true occurred to a Japanese couple during the war.

  • The making of mapo tofu

    2015-09-05 07:46

    Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty make up the 五味 (wǔwèi) - the five basic flavors - and combinations of these flavors create culinary magic the world over. But sometimes an obsession with a single flavor can have a unique charm.

  • Ingredients

    2015-09-05 07:46

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  • Group a building block for Africa

    An unusually heavy downpour hit Durban for two days before the BRICS summit's debut on African soil, but interest for a better platform for emerging markets were still sparked at the summit.
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