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Driverless shuttles make their debut

[2017-04-12 07:17]

SAN RAMON, California - Shuttle buses that make steering wheels, accelerators, brake pads - and even human drivers - obsolete made their debut recently at an East Bay business park.

How to raise your profile at work - without boasting

[2017-04-12 07:17]

Whenever I speak to people about raising their profile at work, I am generally met with horrified looks.

French treasures

[2017-04-11 07:59]

At Napoleon Bonaparte's coronation at the Notre-Dame de Paris on Dec 2, 1804, he carried a sword adorned with a 140-carat diamond that was previously set on the coronation crown of Louis XV and Louis XVI, and 42 other gemstones from France's national treasures.

More focus on cultural relics as a 5-year survey is completed

[2017-04-11 07:59]

China's cultural relics now have national ID cards. A report by the State Council on Friday shows that there are 108 million moveable cultural relics in State-owned institutions on the Chinese mainland, based on a five-year national study, the first since the founding of New China in 1949.

A savvy 3-year-old

[2017-04-11 07:59]

At first glance, Hakkasan seems like what many of my Chinese friends would dismiss as "Chinese food for foreigners".

Amber, Ultraviolet rank among world's 50 best restaurants

[2017-04-11 07:59]

It slipped a little, from No 20 to No 24, but Hong Kong's Amber restaurant remains firmly ensconced on the World's 50 Best Restaurants last week. It is the only Hong Kong restaurant on the 2017 list and, like last year, joins Shanghai's Ultraviolet by Paul Pariet (No 41) as the only two restaurants in China to be so lauded.

Eat beat

[2017-04-11 07:59]

Beijing

Lupertz effect

[2017-04-11 07:59]

Since its official opening in September, Tsinghua University Art Museum is presenting its first solo exhibition of a living artist.

Female participants provide character to joint art project

[2017-04-11 07:59]

The nomination of three young female artists for the Yishu 8 Prize, a project funded by philanthropists from China and France, is reflective of changes in Chinese society and art circles, according to the award jury.

Wider view

[2017-04-10 07:22]

Uljit recently returned from a tour of the Americas.

Play spotlights personal struggle of women in rural China

[2017-04-10 07:22]

A woman is seen walking toward a spotlight onstage under which a circle is drawn in sand.

New album in eight years

[2017-04-10 07:22]

PARIS - Ryuichi Sakamoto, the pioneering Japanese electronic composer, has announced his first studio albumin eight years that is inspired by Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.

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