It's time to remind myself what I love about life here in California, USA, to remember what I desperately miss when I go home. 当我回到家乡，总是让我意识到我是有多么的留恋在美国，加州的生活。 Real radio 电台 In the U...
A secret Santa brought an early Christmas gift to cash-strapped shoppers by spending $20,000 paying off their outstanding bills. 一个神秘的圣诞老人为囊中羞涩的人们提早送出了圣诞礼品他用2万美元为他们买了单。 Staff...
DURING its rise in the 17th century, Amsterdam was animportant haven for religious dissidents. It was also the publishing centre forthe racyphilosophical tracts that were too hot to be printed in France or England. The citys economicfortunes were bor...
The BBC visits New York's Chinatown for the new year celebrations to see how the community is changing 为进一步了解美国华人群体的变化，英国广播公司探访了纽约唐人街的新年庆祝活动。 Chinatowns are a feature of many...
Kai Wang and her friends like to sniff out the latest regional Chinese restaurants: a tiny cafe in east London specialising in food from China's north-east, or one near London Bridge serving numbing and hot crayfish. Kai, 26, is a media professional...
LAST month a local official in Aichiprefecture set out a daring proposal. Tomonaga Osada suggested that theauthorities could distribute secretly punctured condoms to young marriedcouples, who would then get to work boosting the birth rate. His unorth...
BORDEAUX, MAY 2003 - The name appears on millions of bottles of wine, one would almost forget it is also the name of a town in France. The place is crowded with cathedrals, statues and other monuments that remind you of its great history and cultural...
We all know what makes for good character in soldiers. We've seen the movies about heroes who display courage, loyalty and coolness under fire. But what about somebody who sits in front of a keyboard all day? Is it possible to display and cultivate c...
Korean stars have seen clothes and shoes they wear on soap operas flying off the shelves in China. Now, they want to cash in on the trend. 韩国明星发现他们在偶像剧中所穿的衣服和鞋子在中国十分畅销，他们从中嗅到了商机...
The more Japan's global relevance in economic, political and military terms seems to decline, the more it cares about projecting soft power. The government's Cool Japan project subsidizes attractive products or services that, according to the Ministr...
As China's economy and culturalprominence grows, expats from around the world and all walks of life flock tothe Middle Kingdom. While one of the oldestexpats in China haslived here over half a century, one recent survey asked the question, Whoare Chi...
If you have ever travelled to the US and Egypt and forgotten to tip the hotel staff, the chances are you experienced a rather awkward reaction. 如果你去美国和埃及旅游而忘记给酒店工作人员小费，那你很有可能会得到一个尴...
1. Releasing Doves, Philippines 放鸽子，菲律宾 At traditional Filipino wedding receptions, the bride and groom release two doves into the air to represent a long, peaceful, and harmonious life together. 在菲律宾举行婚礼时，新娘和新...
On October 9, Nature published a paper providing the results of new dating techniques that have been used to determine the age of prehistoric rock art motifs in volcanic caves on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Archaeologists have determined tha...
LONDON Kensuke Shichida, the head of a centuries-old sake brewery in southern Japan, had spent a dizzying week in London restaurants tasting a variety of exotic and confounding dishes: pub food, gourmet burgers, French food, Angus beef, ceviche. 伦敦...
