At 1 a.m. local time on Saturday, in Sky36 bar in the second tallest building in Vietnam's central port city of Da Nang, dozens of youths were shaking their bodies to the rhythm of electronic dance music and enjoying drinks at exorbitant prices.
After less than 10-minute cruising on the Mississippi River in west Kentucky, Mark Buttler stopped his boat near a shoal and began to cast nets. He harvested 400 pounds of fish from two fishnets on this bright autumn morning.
Wei Ying, 31, is picky in buying new stuff, but she always buys new clothes with profits from selling old ones and she had a collection of second-hand books and DVDs that was the envy of college classmates.
When designing the Shanghai Tower, the world's secondtallest building, Daniel Winey, head of the design team, said they wanted the skyscraper to be a symbol of China's past, present and future.
With the surge in the number of e-commerce businesses, foreign models are becoming more popular in China, and tend to be seen as a symbol of all that is "international, exotic and charming."
When New Yorkers dressed up for Halloween parade in lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, nobody knew a real "horror story" was happening just blocks away.
For many Chinese people, Africa is not only far away, but also strange and wild. He Wang, however, has spent most of the past decade living on the continent.
Sang Meiying, 74, teaches music every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Shizuishan "university" of the elderly in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, regardless of the weather.
On a night in late October, Zhao Yuhe was flabbergasted to receive the Best Actress Award at a film festival in Zhanjiang.
Earlier this month, Yangzom and her sister wrote a letter to President Xi Jinping, telling him their experiences in safeguarding the border area and the development of their township over the years. To their surprise, they received a reply.