Charting a new course

2011-07-01 10:53:44

British MP Mark Hendrick says Parliamentary group will help consolidate ties with China.

Art house comedy hits all the right notes

2011-07-01 08:11:07

The plot of The Piano in a Factory is easily summarized: A father makes a piano of steel to win over his daughter from his wife.

Raising the bar with documentary The Flag

2011-07-01 08:11:07

A creative visual effects team ensures The Flag, a 10-episode documentary presenting the course of 90 years of the Communist Party of China (CPC), is hoisted in magnificent fashion.

The science of martial arts

2011-07-01 08:11:07

It requires courage to name a film after its genre, as audiences will expect it to be all encompassing.

Paparazzi finally catch up with showbiz' shrinking violet

2011-07-01 08:11:07

Chinese-Japanese actor Takeshi Kaneshiro is justly famous for maintaining a low profile when he is not on set or publicizing a film.

Moving with the times

2011-06-29 07:52:08

Thousands of Beijing families are getting ready to move into homes in the vicinity of sought-after schools, so their children have a better chance of being admitted.

What's New

2011-06-29 07:52:08

Filming on the sequel to Lost in Panic Room, last year's dark horse, began recently.

It's all in the head

2011-06-29 07:52:08

Tinnitus is a relatively common and occasionally devastating health problem that can be dealt with if medical treatment is sought.

Scarlet fever raises its ugly head again in Hong Kong

2011-06-29 07:52:08

Ultramodern Hong Kong is tussling with a centuries, an outbreak of drug-resistant scarlet fever that has killed the first children there in a decade.

IN BRIEF

2011-06-29 07:52:08

If your preschooler can't sleep - turn off the violence and nighttime TV.

Everyone is jumping on the online TV bandwagon

2011-06-29 07:52:08

Pictures and words are powerful but videos have the edge and the country's major media organizations seem to agree.

Why do so many lissome Chinese think they are fat?

2011-06-29 07:52:08

According to the Duchess of Windsor, "A woman can't be too rich or too thin".