Robots like us
2013-11-24 13:52:30
On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into the Paris offices of the French robot maker Aldebaran and noticed one of the company's humanoid NAO robots sitting on a chair.
A blooming marvelous show
2013-11-24 11:39:13
More than 100,000 potted chrysanthemums are blooming at the Shanghai Gongqing Forest Park, while the city begins its winter days.
Feel-good stories ask questions of us all
2013-11-23 01:25:44
To dispel the gloom of the day, there is nothing like a heartwarming true story. Make it two stories, a perfect pair, as a matter of fact, that took place across the Pacific Ocean almost simultaneously.
Hamlet en pointe
2013-11-22 02:25:42
A star choreographer packages the madness, grief and rage of Shakespeare's prince of Denmark into a dance drama all her own, Chen Nan reports.
Hamlet en pointe
2013-11-22 02:25:42
A star choreographer packages the madness, grief and rage of Shakespeare's prince of Denmark into a dance drama all her own, Chen Nan reports.
Unspoken shame
2013-11-20 01:55:29
Shocking cases of child sex abuse have dominated news headlines in the past year. While authorities focus on harsher punishments for perpetrators, experts say society's attitude toward victims is the bigger problem.
Difficult work protects vulnerable children
2013-11-20 07:07:17
A 62-year-old Canadian man, who directed a Chinese father to sexually assault his 1-year-old son over Skype, was sentenced to five years in prison last month.
Men's health grows fuzzier
2013-11-17 14:19:30
Guys are growing and grooming mustaches to raise awareness about testicular and prostate cancer in Movember.
Securing a woman's world
2013-11-17 09:45:38
Females account for a growing slice of the country's emergent bodyguard industry and must learn everything from how to endure a bottle over the cranium to tea ceremony etiquette.
Hit litterbugs with fines, not insults
2013-11-16 00:24:29
A lack of civility in urban China is a testament to a much deeper rift in behavioral patterns that result from social divide. Raymond Zhou reports.
Green group reports on China's biodiversity
2013-11-14 09:43:08
People know climate change has been unsettling our planet's geological, biological and ecological systems, but how does it affect the living animals and plants on our planet, especially those rare species that live in protected areas?
Yo-yo combines art, culture and exercise
2013-11-14 08:19:05
Kongzhu, also known as the Chinese yo-yo, works as a diabolo spinning and buzzing like an acrobat on a string.