Basketball star Yao Ming and British entrepreneur Richard Branson on Thursday launched a campaign urging Chinese to stop eating shark fin soup to help save the predators.
Unlike many sportsmen who avoid sex the night before a match to ensure they have enough strength, Chinese crickets are encouraged to enjoy as much hanky-panky as possible on the eve of a fight.
“I always visit Bulgari, because it is the most important museum of contemporary art.” —Andy Warhol The Bulgari Retrospective Exhibition,...
Want to know what's in store for 2012? Who will win the US election? Will the eurozone implode? China's feng shui masters tackle the big issues with their predictions for the Year of the Dragon.
At the dawning of the new year of the Dragon, I found myself consulting the many articles dealing with Chinese cosmology. Some of what I read made sense.
New York art dealers might need to pull out marker pens and add zeros to their price tags during Asia Week sales starting Friday in auction houses and galleries across the city.
In a gentrified section of Shanghai, we were about to begin our tour of the restored 1930s house—now a living museum open to the public—when Carlson Chan espied one of the artifacts on display. It was a wooden chamber pot. He pointed it out to us. We gathered around it, curious about this remnant of China’s pre-Communist past.
Intuitively, you felt something unusual, a change in your bodily functions, maybe some pain or bleeding, and you went to your family doctor. You were referred to an oncologist, a biopsy was done, and if the report was positive for cancer cells, you were given the ghastly news.
Jonathon Keats finds the Chinese-US currency war electrifying -- literally.
The Philippines is set to send a bombshell to China this year. Not for a territorial dispute but for a competition to determine who has the most dangerous curves in the world.
