With over 200 stalls lining the banks of the river Seine, Paris' antique booksellers or bouquinistes are a familiar feature of the city landscape, and one that can trace its history back more than four centuries.
Beijing's universities gear up to welcome a new class of international university students
Jin Shan never thought that one day she would be teaching thousands of adults all over the country children's dances.
Public kindergartens are struggling to cope with thousands of 3-year-olds born in the boom year of 2007 - the auspicious Year of the Golden Pig, Mei Jia reports
Call them toners, shapers, or rocker bottoms, those exercise shoes with the distinctive thick, rounded soles are flying off the shelves and onto the feet of even the most clodhopper-averse walkers.
"What they see is what you get," fashion consultant Georgia Donovan told the Sotheby's staff in her talk entitled "Appearance Matters."
Britain's tabloid Sun newspaper launched its own celebrity perfume on Monday to provide readers with the scent of showbiz.
I have been planning to write a comment about long-distance relationships for a month but each time the plan gets postponed because I spend most of my private time chatting with my boyfriend, online.
Within minutes of the inauguration of the Indian stand - designed to resemble a typical rural Indian courtyard, with images etched in relief on the faux mud walls - at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF), those manning its neat stalls began receiving questions.
Writers and publishers engage in much hand-wringing while pondering ways to get the world to read the nation's authors at a recent book fair, Yang Guang reports
Many attendees of the 17th Beijing International Book Fair cited the success of Yu Dan's Confucius from the Heart as an example of Chinese authors making inroads in the overseas publication market.
The warmth generated by human bodies in the Parisian metro will help heat a public housing project in the city center, the capital's largest owner of social housing said Friday.
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