Singing away the Beijing blues

A Beijing bar is hosting a three-day blues festival starting on Friday, featuring a dozen bands and soloists from around the world.

Center to use remote sensing for heritage site protection

The newly launched Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST) center will apply space and remote sensing technologies.

New findings by Professor Xu Xing, with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, suggest it was just another dinosaur.

Everything about Cao Yulan's life changed the instant the electrical pole crashed down on her mother's head during a violent thunderstorm.

Daphna Ziman is on a mission to help foster children, and she's picked a novel way to do it - novel, being the key word.

Like her two previous mysteries, In the Woods (2007) and The Likeness (2008), French's latest is set in Dublin and steeped in local history.

The strongest impression Wendi Deng left on my colleague was her height: "She is really tall and stands out," I was told.

The Chinese press is devoting pages and pages to the phone hacking scandal that is unfolding half a world away.

The 8,000 square meters of exhibition space at UCCA is known for displaying the latest in the art world.

The 100th birthday of Yang Jiang was a low-key affair for a celebrated writer and translator

Chi Ma, a Tibetan intern in a company in the Chengdu High-tech Zone, cannot contain her excitement over her new notebook computer.

Tibetans celebrate the 60th anniversary of the region's peaceful liberation with a grand parade in front of Potala Palace on Tuesday.