Thriller with a cause
2011-07-29 08:01:34
Daphna Ziman is on a mission to help foster children, and she's picked a novel way to do it - novel, being the key word.
IN BRIEF
2011-07-29 08:01:34
Like her two previous mysteries, In the Woods (2007) and The Likeness (2008), French's latest is set in Dublin and steeped in local history.
Center to use remote sensing for heritage site protection
2011-07-29 08:01:34
The newly launched Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (HIST) center will apply space and remote sensing technologies.
Archaeopteryx knocked off its perch
2011-07-29 08:01:34
New findings by Professor Xu Xing, with the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, suggest it was just another dinosaur.
Show homes
2011-07-28 08:02:21
Old houses in the Yangtze River Delta's countryside are being dismantled and reassembled for display in the gardens of the nation's new rich.
Journalistic ethics, an oxymoron?
2011-07-22 08:02:20
The Chinese press is devoting pages and pages to the phone hacking scandal that is unfolding half a world away.
At the margins of life
2011-07-22 08:02:20
Writer Yang Jiang spent her centennial birthday on July 17 with self-effacing mo-desty.
What they say
2011-07-22 08:02:20
In the winter of 2002, she decided to concentrate on the writing of We Three, to fulfill the wishes of her daughter.
Indian trilogy writer strikes 'black gold'
2011-07-22 08:02:20
The book comes with a huge cast of real-life and fictional characters - tycoons, government officials, journalists, smugglers and fugitives.
New may be silver, but old is gold
2011-07-22 08:02:20
The 8,000 square meters of exhibition space at UCCA is known for displaying the latest in the art world.
Spirit of joy
2011-07-20 07:56:56
Tibetans celebrate the 60th anniversary of the region's peaceful liberation with a grand parade in front of Potala Palace on Tuesday.
Tibetan students face better lives
2011-07-20 07:56:56
Chi Ma, a Tibetan intern in a company in the Chengdu High-tech Zone, cannot contain her excitement over her new notebook computer.