The Chinese New Year begins between late January and mid-February on a date determined by using the traditional lunar calendar. In 2015, it falls on Feb 19, and marks the beginning of the Year of the Sheep.
After having failed in starting a web business twice in the past 10 years, 34-year-old Wang Liang dipped his toes into the mobile Internet business.
As young entrepreneurs jostle into the mobile Web market to woo individual users, Eventown, a company that offers web-based and mobileweb services for site selection and management of meetings, is trying to transform the meetings-service industry by providing services for business clients.
Swiss watch sellers in mainland China say there has not been much difference in sales so far since the Swiss franc's sudden surge on Jan 15, although dealers in Hong Kong and Singapore have reported a rush of business.
The introduction to Chinese bureaucracy was particularly swift for babies born in Guiyang, Guizhou province, in early November 2014.
Fang Yan should have had a baby in early July. It would have been the family's second child, conceived after Fang and her husband joined the 700,000 couples that registered to have another child following the 2014 announcement of amendments to China's family planning policy.
In the 1980s, cesarean sections accounted for about 15 percent of total births in China, but since then the rate has risen rapidly year-on-year, according to the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
Few people who enter the main studio of Luolan Pole Dance School in the heart of Beijing's Central Business District are likely to be immune to the energy of the students' sensual, elegant movements.
Amidst the gluttony-inducing holiday season, labazhou (腊八粥) is a simple, humble dish that keeps you connected to tradition and the true holiday spirit.
Zhu Gang, a urologist at a public hospital in Beijing, initially sought part-time work at Beijing United Family Hospital in 2004 to maintain his English, given that many of the hospital's doctors and patients come from overseas.
Two years after Pei Guangjiang returned from the "country of rainbows", he still feels the need to explain to curious people what South Africa is like.
In October, Nyima Dorjee Rinpoche, abbot of Palden Ningye Monastery, set off on a journey to what Tibetans call "Handi", which loosely translates into "the Han ethnic land". He was on a sacred mission to visit Mount Wutai in Shanxi province.
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