Not only can young Japanese women look forward to a longer life than their male peers, now they also make more money.
With its gilded temples, tuk-tuk taxis, spicy cuisine and racy nightlife, Bangkok is full of contradictions, congestion and centuries-old exotic allure.
The legend of the Titanic lands in London next month with an exhibition featuring 14 new artifacts from the sunken transatlantic liner and video footage from the site of the wreck.
Sample Paul Bocuse's legendary signature dishes from his restaurant.
As autumn prepares us for the chill and cold, Huaiyang cuisine-a frequent choice for state banquets-is the ideal choice for the discerning gourmet.
In Yunnan, flowers are sold by weight, like vegetables.
Monet managed in the photograph what he exalted in paint: the effervescent pleasure of seeing and the inevitable disappearance of that pleasure.Reality, with its mess and noise, fails to live up to what Monet painted.
Worries over Internet privacy have spurred lawsuits, conspiracy theories and consumer anxiety as marketers and others invent new ways to track computer users on the Internet.
Fruits, flowers and animal prints burst onto the runway at the spring collections in Paris and Milan recently.
One does not have to travel a long way to get a sense of being away from Beijing. Newly opened club and restaurant Villa Castanea, built in the style of a European garden, serves that purpose well.
Peking roast duck giant Quanjude's oldest branch at Qianmen has just created some new duck dishes cooked in the Huaiyang style.
Spanish entrepreneur Julia Prez-Cerezo says that she finds Chinese women entrepreneurs totally inspiring.