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The Canada Post has printed almost 10 million stamps featuring the monkey king from a popular 16th century Chinese fairy tale to mark the Chinese Year of Monkey.

Chinese new year Canadian style

VANCOUVER, Canada, Jan 20, 2004 - New stamps, commemorative coins and even a cheque book designed...

China AFP/Michel Comte

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Recipe: Heiheluo - Black Noodles

Serves about 4 For the poor in Xi'an, this and similar noodle dishes are usually on the daily men...

China Habeeb Salloum

Katie

Okay Honey, Call me if You Need Anything

She and her mother went apartment shopping and within a week they signed a lease on an apartment.

China Jack VanNoord

Replicas of antique statues, at an antique market in Beijing.

The Trade in Chinese Relics

BEIJING, April 25, 2004 - When a grieving family placed a fist-sized clay lion in a tomb in centr...

China AFP/Peter Harmsen

Sunset at Li-River

Li-River Cruise

The Li-River Cruise is worth each penny!

China Tom Ber

Emeishan, Sichuan province, China

Excerpt from "Hard Roads in Shu" -- Li Bai

Oh but it is high and dangerous! Such traveling is harder than scaling the blue sky. Until two ru...

China Dawn Stanton

Schlachttag (Datang, Prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)

Ancient skill of cooling warehouses in Datang village (prefecture Qian Dong Nan, Guizhou province)

Ancient, nevertheless smart technique to cool warehouses in Datang village (prefecture Qian Dong ...

China Tom Ber • www.tomber.de

Cavers on a break

Deep Down Under the Middle Kingdom

...There's a world going on underground! -- Tom Waits The sun was moving down behind a cloud bank...

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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A Lady on a Tramp

A review of Victorian Isabella Bird's travels through the Far East.

China / Malaysia / Singapore Kenneth Champeon

Logistics in the Longji rice terraces...

Longji rice terraces

Longji rices terraces are close to Longsheng town in Guangxi, near Guilinin Guangxi, not to far a...

China tomber.de

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Of Destinations and Dog Biscuits: An Interview with Journalist Jacquelin Sonderling

Does it ever seem as if some people squeeze more life into a lifetime than others? That their day...

China Celeste Heiter

Michael Palin Remembers Me

Being paid to write about someone you've idolized since childhood is nice work if you can get it....

China Joshua Samuel Brown

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Pairing Wine with Chinese Food

The heat is on for chefs and sommeliers to match wine with the wildly, deliciously diverse Canton...

China AFP/Suzanne Mustacich

River boats in Bangkok

Parliament is in Session

I was starting to get the feeling that we had just been hustled.

China Jack VanNoord

Art on display along Beijing's famed Wangfujing Street.

China's avant-garde artists still shunned by local collectors

Chinese collectors' interest in the country's own contemporary art is so limited that it sometime...

China AFP/Peter Harmsen

Recipe: Barbecued Lamb Kababs

Serves 6 to 8 3 pounds lamb, cut into 1 inch cubes 4 tablespoons soy sauce 4 tablespoons vegetabl...

China Habeeb Salloum

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Buddhism in a Nutshell

* * * * * Review of Laurence-Khantipalo Mills' Buddhism Explained , Silkworm Books, 1999. * * * *...

China Kenneth Champeon

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In Macau, gambling's the only game in town...

China AFP/Peter Brieger

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Traditional Chinese Medicine Revealed

Speak of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the image of exotic healing formulas passed down genera...

China Blue Lam

'Mr. Nice Guy' Hong Kong Dinner Recipes & Photos

Sashimi Rice Paper Rolls 6 rice paper wrappers Filling: 1/2 pound sushi-grade tuna, sliced into t...

China Celeste Heiter

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