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Tastes of tomorrow

[2017-06-28 07:57]

Life in the future can be easy and diversified. You can establish your own home just like building blocks, have a robotic kitchen cook delicious dishes catering to your tastes and move your furniture by touching a button.

These selfies are a real sendup

[2017-06-28 07:57]

Typically when I unbox a gadget to test, I use it until it does what it's supposed to or doesn't do it - either way it doesn't take that long. But after unboxing the Rova flying selfie, I couldn't wait for the batteries to recharge and use it again.

Playlist

[2017-06-28 07:57]

You can find all kinds of challenges at Addicting Games (addictinggames.com), from strategy to shooters to sports. When you need to exercise your brain, the Lightybulb series will give it a good workout.

Summer body: Thunder thighs and belly outlines

[2017-06-28 07:57]

Once upon a time, summer used to be about self-hatred. Magazines told women how they could get the perfect "bikini body", and made them feel guilty if they were not a toned size 8 with a flat stomach.

Inspired by a tree

[2017-06-27 07:59]

Over the last two decades, ink-brush artist Zhou Zunsheng has frequently journeyed between his home in Beijing and the source of his inspiration, the Xinjiang Ugyur autonomous region. Every year, the 59-year-old stays there for two to six months.

Exhibition focuses on the xieyi school of oil painting

[2017-06-27 07:59]

Chinese artists have sought to blend a Chinese temperament into their oil paintings since the genre arrived in the country a century ago.

Dancing with chickens

[2017-06-27 07:59]

Agatha Christie's famous fictional detective, Hercule Poirot, was once asked why he wasn't busy looking for footprints and other clues at a murder scene.

Oven-roasted chicken with guacamole

[2017-06-27 07:59]

Spring chicken

New wine latest link between Australia, China

[2017-06-27 07:59]

Diplomats, business types and longtime Beijing residents may find a familiar face grinning back from a bottle of red wine this month.

Bridge of life

[2017-06-27 07:59]

Although he didn't attend a fine-arts college, Wang Mai, 45, was one of the youngest artists who participated in the emergence of Chinese contemporary art in the early 1990s.

China brings culture exhibition to Nepal's capital

[2017-06-27 07:59]

KATHMANDU - A weeklong exhibition on China's intangible culture is running in Kathmandu, offering Nepalese insight into China's rich and abundant history and culture.

Tourists enjoy water puppet shows in Hanoi

[2017-06-27 07:59]

HANOI - On a summer afternoon in Vietnam's capital, Hanoi, the audience watches colorful puppets in the form of a farmer, fish, fox or dragon plowing a rice field, swimming, climbing a tree or puffing fire and smoke on the surface of water with no sign of handlers or equipment.

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