BEIJING — Shortly after 7:30, the servers at China’s biggest North Korean restaurant become singers. They emerge for their nightly performances in orange and purple satin dresses and stiletto heels,
Boxing is not just something to watch on TV but a sport any office worker can take part in to improve their life, according to participants in the recently concluded White Collar Boxing night in Beijing.
Once upon a long time, Beijing was Peking and Guangdong was Canton. Shanghai was the Paris of the East, its quaint Chinese homes pitting character on little concealed lanes against the city’s cosmopolitan air.
I had been planning for the longest time to visit Shanghai after an adventurous trip to Beijing in 2005 with my media advertising colleagues.
It has been 42 years since my first Chinese New Year in Beijing. And 28 years since my last in the Chinese capital, as I, with my husband Mario and our two Chinese-born daughters, returned to the Philippines in 1986 right after the first Edsa People Power Revolution that brought down the Marcos dictatorship.
It may be unclear what exactly Beijing means by its aspirational “China Dream” slogan, but for banned “Wild Swans” author Jung Chang it’s a positive step. “It’s good to have a dream,” she says. “My dream is to have my books published in China.”
A Beijing court has granted a divorce to an American woman and her Chinese celebrity-entrepreneur husband in a high-profile case that highlighted the often-hidden problem of domestic violence in China.
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