'Green house' plan to improve garbage disposal
2011-07-26 07:52:59
Huang Xiaoshan, an environmental activist, has decided to invest in and open a garbage sorting station that he will call "the green house".
In seventh heaven
2011-07-26 11:16:37
A chance to participate in an installation exhibition in Beijing opens up a whole new world to a group of poor women from Ningxia Hui autonomous region.
Learn TCM in China
2011-07-25 09:37:52
A growing number of young people from around the world are traveling to China to learn the ancient practice of TCM. They have come to the place of the theories' roots to begin learning the wisdom behind the respected Eastern discipline.
Talkback: Readers share their views
2011-07-25 09:49:27
Here is a selection of the many comments received by China Daily METRO every day on e-mail, through chinadaily.com.cn and through Sina Weibo.
Stylish sides
2011-07-24 13:30:09
They were uniformly green, with grim-faced soldiers astride most of the time. But now, they are trendy collector's items popular with the expatriate community.
Pursuing happiness in Beijing
2011-07-21 11:44:53
Chris Tataryn is a Canadian who works as a teacher in Beijing, though being a teacher isn't his goal in life. At the age of 29, he is not sure what he wants to be. But he does know one thing. He just wants to be happy.
Indulging for a cause
2011-07-21 16:10:45
BJ Foodies, the monthly philanthropy club for lovers of fine cuisine, raised 2,280 yuan from its charity dinner at Casa Latina in Solana Bar Street.
Time for summer romance at Regent Beijing
2011-07-21 13:38:50
The Regent Beijing will present a wedding show on July 31 with the theme of Summer Romance 2011.
Ear to the ground
2011-07-15 07:57:36
Yu Jianrong has a ringside view of China's rural tribulations. But he prefers to position himself as an observer whose keen insights into the petition system allow his remedies to be palatable to both sides of the social divide.
Giving life a second chance
2011-07-19 07:55:19
How would you get rid of unwanted things that still have many years of use left in them? A) Give them to a friend; b) Sell them online; or c) Leave them for the garbage collector? Hayley Robinson and her husband, Beijing residents from Britain, who used their clothes washer/dryer to wash their newborn son's cloth diapers before switching to disposable ones, decided to offer it to strangers on Freecycle Beijing, an online community that advocates giving away things one no longer wants.
Playing Cupid for Beijing's singles
2011-07-17 07:53:36
Ola Zdzarska says Beijing is full of attractive and interesting men and women who are just waiting to meet a partner. "There is plenty of fish in the sea, especially in Beijing. The biggest difference in Beijing compared to other cities in Europe is that more women speed-date than men. Chinese men are too shy," she says.
Oceans Apart
2011-07-17 07:53:12
It is a rainy night in Portland, and Susan Conley has just tucked into bed her two boys, Thorne, age 10 and Aidan, age 8. She has not quite recovered from the residual jet lag of two weeks in Asia on a book tour promoting her memoir, The Foremost Good Fortune. And I am making her think, forcing her to dig deep and dissect some of the book's themes that express the trials and tribulations of an expat mom living in China with cancer.