Turning up the heat

2011-07-22 11:55:04

Traditional Chinese medicine using moxa, or mugwort herb, is once again becoming fashionable

Terrible acting worsens an incoherent plot

2011-07-20 07:56:56

Fast cars, big explosions and hot girls - director Michael Bay's final Transformers movie has it all.

A rabbit to the rescue?

2011-07-20 07:56:56

As the summer heat intensifies, domestically made animation films are gearing up for the holiday season box-office showdown.

A dream in motion

2011-07-20 07:56:56

Zhuo Jun burst out of a giant gift box dressed like a clown and starts chasing balloons, while performing his robotic-style of hip-hop dancing.

Spirit of joy

2011-07-20 07:56:56

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

Sweet sounds return

2011-07-19 07:55:19

When Wong's career started in Hong Kong in 1994, her cover of The Cranberries' song Dreams made people see her as a pioneering singer.

Wine challenge

2011-07-17 08:44:05

Shanghai

Giving weight to words

2011-07-18 14:07:52

Just when all language seemed to be going the way of Twitter and text message shorthand, a backlash to brevity is brewing.

Giving life a second chance

2011-07-19 07:55:19

How would you get rid of unwanted things that still have many years of use left in them? A) Give them to a friend; b) Sell them online; or c) Leave them for the garbage collector? Hayley Robinson and her husband, Beijing residents from Britain, who used their clothes washer/dryer to wash their newborn son's cloth diapers before switching to disposable ones, decided to offer it to strangers on Freecycle Beijing, an online community that advocates giving away things one no longer wants.

Oceans apart

2011-07-18 14:19:37

American writer Susan Conley revisits her two years in Beijing battling breast cancer in her memoir.

Finding a path in martial art

2011-07-18 14:19:37

On a sweltering afternoon, a group of young men in white robes are practicing kungfu in a backyard.

The Modern Monks of China

2011-07-18 14:19:37

The world-weary have sought refuge in Buddhist temples for thousands of years, shedding their earthly entanglements for a higher calling.