Irish eyes are smiling at the huge potential of China's lucrative outbound tourism market.
Many Chinese would think nothing of spending 200 yuan ($29) on a big meal or watching a Hollywood blockbuster.
"We are striving to make King Coffee one of world's top five coffee brands and to make Vietnam a global coffee powerhouse," the wife of Vietnam's coffee king told Xinhua.
Soon after the program Rendezvous With Chinese Poetry returned to television screens two months ago, it was pulling in the kinds of audiences that you would normally only associate with a top-notch reality TV show.
It all comes down to how books deal with the tight, dark confines of a school bag: Can an anthology of poetry live amicably with a manual on general mechanics?
Zhang Bohan used to strolled over to the Haidian Book City in northwest Beijing in 2005.
China on Thursday published a reproduced edition of its oldest hand-written copy of the Koran.
An exhibition featuring photographer Xia Tiangong's photos will be held at Shang 8 Art Gallery in Beijing from May 7 to 20. A preview for the show will last from May 7 to 8.
Grandmothers play important roles for many Chinese. Unlike in the West, many of them live and grow up in a family of three to four generations.
A tomb complex likely used by nomadic people to bury their dead was recently discovered in Yinxu archaeological site in Anyang city, Henan province.
Beijing plans to recruit 30 junior high school students and train them into becoming professionals at restoring cultural relics for the Forbidden City amid a shortage of such talents, according to Beijing Youth Daily.
Spring is a season where the grasses thrive and birds chirp, and people enjoy the outdoors, embracing their natural surroundings, appreciating its beauty.