Hot tips
2013-07-14 08:04:22
How do you cool down in this steamy summer? China Daily gives you some useful ideas.
Marijuana's pollution threat
2013-07-14 08:05:36
It took the death of a small, rare member of the weasel family to focus the attention of Northern California's marijuana growers on the impact that their huge and expanding activities were having on the environment.
When a bonus is time at home
2013-07-14 08:05:36
FALL RIVER, Wisconsin - Sara Uttech has not spent much of her career so far worrying about "leaning in." Instead, she has mostly been hanging on, trying to find ways to get her career to accommodate her family life.
Love that knows no end
2013-07-12 08:50:37
Many dream of finding everlasting love, but few have the tenacity to embrace it. Some crumple under the weight of child rearing, keeping home or getting along with in-laws.
Hitched and ditched - just for money
2013-07-12 08:50:37
For some opportunistic Chinese couples, marriage is far from being a matter of the heart
Lang Lang's quest
2013-07-12 08:50:37
Last month, two Chinese superstar musicians staged a little duel not duet, but a kind of mock musical duel. Lang Lang and Jay Chou invited three members of the audience at Tsinghua University to each strike a random note on the piano and they followed up by fleshing out the notes into a complete piece.
Drink and lose your head
2013-07-12 08:50:37
In a typical Chinese soap opera, a scene introducing a hero usually shows a broad-shouldered, macho swordsman downing a bowl of jiu in one gulp, then putting down the bowl heavily on the table and roaring: "Good jiu!(好酒 Hǎojǐu)"
Scholarship for women
2013-07-10 11:21:46
O'Loreal Group has recently signed a four-year memorandum of understanding with the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, to jointly promote higher education for young women.
Don't stretch yourself
2013-07-10 07:18:27
Yoga is now a mainstream exercise regime worldwide, a far cry from the 1960s and '70s when you had to go to a retreat in India to practice.
Breathe deep, this is the real thing
2013-07-10 09:19:14
Indian yoga master Swami Mangalteertham was in Beijing recently for the 2013 China-India Yoga Week, where he said he wants to eliminate "junk yoga" in China.
Lovebirds separate when things gets rough
2013-07-08 10:36:40
Social changes in China in the past several decades mean couples have to make more effort to stay married for life.
Temple retreat a hot pursuit
2013-07-08 10:17:46
An offer for spiritual seekers to become "temporary monks and nuns" at a temple in Tiantai Mountain, has turned the holy place's virtual world into a madhouse.