Since I last went to Yashow Market in Beijing, I have had the image of wide-eyed shoppers lumbering about with wads of cash and salesmen stroking thin moustaches with gleaming eyes ingrained in my mind.
Male managers in Britain earn 10,000 pounds ($15,587) a year more than their female counterparts and it could be almost 60 years before that gap is closed, a Chartered Management Institute survey said on Thursday.
Harvard retains the crown as top university for the eighth year in an annual ranking of the world's universities which is dominated by the United States but shows China's performance improving.
Germany's highest court has ruled a law which makes homosexuals living in civil partnerships pay higher inheritance tax is unconstitutional.
Britons spend almost half of their waking hours watching TV and using their mobiles or other communication devices but are paying less to do so, media watchdog Ofcom said on Wednesday.
Adults consider obesity the number one threat to children's health in the United States and many believe the problem is getting worse, according to a new poll.
An abundance of belly blubber doubles the likelihood of death within a decade, new research finds.
Being the closest living human relative to the great carnivorous beasts that roamed our planet many millions of years ago, the vast array of dishes containing members of the animal kingdom was a personal delight on arriving in Beijing.
Don't it always seem to go/That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone/They paved paradise/And put up a parking lot - Joni Mitchell Big Yellow Taxi.
"Moving home is the next most stressful task next to getting a divorce and changing jobs," a friend once said.
The best friend of late national hero, Lei Feng, says remorse over driving during the accident that caused Lei's accidental death has motivated him to commit his life to honoring the altruistic icon.
"Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be, the future's not ours to see" is as dated as Doris Day.
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