Beijing property market rebounds in July

Beijing's housing market perked up in early July, with home sales jumping to 8,862 units, 44 percent more than early June, according to official figures released on Thursday.

Changing Beijing through the eyes of New Yorker

Beijing Sixes ready to bowl off

One of the biggest events on the Beijing expatriates' sporting calendar, the Beijing Cricket Sixes, will swing into action for its fourth straight year at Dulwich College on Friday.

Ambassador's wife shows true colors in China

Ambassadors and diplomats are often invited to attend exhibitions, but in very rare cases they go to exhibitions with their own works.

Dolling up her designs

When Caroline Deleens followed her father to Beijing for his posting with a large French company in 1995, she immediately fell for the capital's alluring cultural mix of old and new. "We could enjoy a local restaurant in a traditional hutong alleyway, and meanwhile appreciate the modern buildings coming up across the street. That was simply amazing," she says. Those were not merely the feelings of a Western tourist enraptured by her first trip to China. Deleens' reaction came from a deep familiarity with a cultural landscape of art and style needed for creativity to flourish. The Frenchwoman, now 35, decided this was the right place to be inspired, helping her become one of the first Westerners to start a fashion brand in China.

Eeyore goes well between the bread

An apple, a yogurt, a chocolate bar and a sandwich- that has been my lunch every day since I switched from mother's milk to solid food.