2011-12-20What is it about Beijing property developers?
2011-12-18A two-year collaboration between the Danish and Chinese postal systems bore fruit last weekend, when a pair of intaglio-engraved stamps was officially issued in Nanjing.
2011-12-18Air pollution in China's big cities gets lot of attention, but one British entrepreneur says the challenge can be faced, Angela Shen reports.
2011-12-18As a Chinese-American kid in San Marino, California, Allan Wu had no vision of himself as a bridge between his family's ancestral culture and its new one. "My parents were first-generation immigrants from Shenyang in Northeast China," he says. "But I was born in America and I wanted to be an American - 'to be like everybody else'." Today the community where he grew up is about 30 percent Asian, "but back then there were just a handful." So young Wu struggled to learn English since it wasn't the language of his own house, and he resisted his parents' urging to learn Chinese because that wasn't his vision of himself.
2011-12-17There is wide agreement that the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), agreed in 1992, needs to be reviewed. Perspectives differ on what needs to be changed, both in terms of the nature of problems and the possible solutions.
2011-06-13The 25-year-old Italian said he hasn't spent half his life studying martial arts and stunts just to become another crude caricature of a racist foreigner getting beaten to a pulp by an Asian kung fu star.
2011-05-16When Yana Neskodna first came to Beijing from Switzerland in 1987, there were bicycles everywhere. She hardly saw a private car, let alone a fancy sports car. Almost 20 years later, when German photographer Thomas Sohnrey first came to Beijing, he was amazed by the skyscrapers in the CBD but on later visits he realized that the zigzag hutong were what truly fascinated him.
2011-05-12A leading voice for the disabled raises a few concerns, Todd Balazovic reports.
2011-05-09As Beijing strides towards becoming a modern metropolis, the capital's restaurant scene is undergoing a metamorphosis. Streets that once housed hole-in-the-wall noodle restaurants and back-alley dumpling joints now flaunt neon-lit Chinese restaurants and big bold Western chains.
2010-11-29When people living outside of Beijing think about the capital, two different sets of images come readily to mind. One consists of historic palaces, temples and buildings - notably the Forbidden City and old hutong alleys. The other images are of the sleek, modern office and apartment towers symbolizing the new Beijing.
2010-10-13If you come across Liu laoshi's kungfu wrestling class at the Beijing Language and Culture University campus, you won't see any colored belts or rows of students shouting in unison.
2010-08-16Skillful fan finds new career by injecting fresh life into classic Chinese motorbikes
2010-08-02Reviewing composition, monitoring shutter speeds and controlling aperture are daily tasks for Peter Carney. Not only because he is an award-winning photographer but because he is now sharing his skills with others through workshops
