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People: Floating high in the sky, 69-year-old paraglider

Besides swimming and cycling, paragliding is another activity that Li Jiaxin, a 69-year-old from Jilin, Jilin province, relishes. The septuagenarian, the oldest female paraglider in the country, has been practicing paragliding for almost 10 years. "I love the adventure of paragliding, but I won't try any risky maneuvers as I don't want to take any chances with safety," Li said.

Biz: Top 10 favorite sports of Chinese female millionaires

The Hurun Research Institute has released a survey revealing the pastime and sporting preferences of rich Chinese people, with an insight into how wealthy women like to unwind, as well as their consumption habits and lifestyle trends. In the survey, yoga is listed as the most preferred pastime of the country's richest women, followed by jogging, swimming, golf and skiing. Read more about these sports on our website.

Film: Different movies, same publicity poster style

The long-anticipated Pirates of the Caribbean series finally returns to the big screen this year. The fifth movie, Dead Men Tell No Tales, will be unveiled to movie fans on May 26. The poster for the movie shows Jack Sparrow and Captain Salazar staring menacingly at each other, as if ready for a fight. This style of poster, face-to-face, is one of the highlights of our website, where we look at nine films both, foreign and domestic, with similar poster postures.

Culture: Chinese writer wins leading literary prize in Canada

With Shenzheners, his first book in English (translated from the Chinese by Darryl Sterk), Xue Yiwei has been awarded the Diversity Prize of the 19th Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival. This is the first time the high-profile festival has awarded a prize to a Chinese writer, a landmark achievement especially as it was translated. Since its publication in September, Xue's collection of stories, originally well-received in China, has drawn a great deal of attention from Canadian readers.

Art: Former mechanic turns copper wires into works of art

Bo Yongshang used to be a mechanic but he decided to dedicate his life to handicrafts five years ago. Using copper wires, the 46-year-old has created vivid models of bicycles, motorbikes, tricycles and small cars. At weekends, he sets up a stand and sells them at Xiangshan Park in his home city of Huaibei, East China's Anhui province. Visit our website to see more of his work.

Buzzword: Bedgasm

Bedgasm is a feeling of complete and utter euphoria which peaks when climbing into bed at the end of a long day, maybe following an arduous road trip or hours of extremely strenuous physical activity. Under perfect conditions, the physical release has been likened to that of an intense out-of-body experience.