A sunny morning breaks in Shiquan, a mountainous county in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, as Zhao Mingcui begins to strap postal items onto the sides and the back of a motorbike ahead of her journey. Every second or third day in a week, she delivers mail to the villages nearby, a job she has held for almost two decades.
With the global slide in paper mail, China Post, the country's postal backbone, is increasingly diversifying its business to stay relevant.
A Van Gogh exhibition has attracted more than 120,000 visitors in Shanghai, without presenting a single original painting by the Dutch artist.
In Legend of the Dragonslayer Sword a romance set in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) protagonist Zhang Wuji is an average young man without good looks, talent or great virtue. That is, until he accidentally gets hold of a secret book that teaches a rare, invincible form of kung fu.
Even though he spent seven years training at veterinary school, Zhou Quan still faces a steep learning curve when he started his professional career. The problem isn't a lack of clinic knowledge or technical proficiency, but the treatment of animals used in laboratory tests, and the respect, or lack of it, shown to them.
Some people collect paintings, others, sculptures and antique furniture. But Qin Tongqian does more - he buys entire houses, mostly homes built in ancient China.
China Remix, a documentary that spotlights blossoming Sino-African cultural ties, has been screened in Nairobi.
The United States loves American football. It's the country's number one sport in popularity and attendance.
Like many of his fellow villagers in the mountain township of Sanmen, Zhou Yunyao used to migrate to bigger cities to undertake a range of jobs, such as vehicle maintenance, to raise his standard of living.
On an early morning in central London in March, a group of 50 British pupils from three schools gathered in the head office of the London Stock Exchange.
After several years of planning, a massive workforce began building Tianjin West Railway Station in early 2009. With the efforts of several thousand laborers, the vast 179,000 square-meter station was finished within two years.
As the anti-corruption campaign and austerity policies continue in China, sales of imported spirits are slumping. However, Western spirits producers remain optimistic about the future of the market, and are shifting their focus from high-end drinkers to young Chinese born after 1980 and the country's growing middle class.
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