French by the Glass
China’s middle class has discovered French wine, reports China Daily, and developed quite the taste — and pocketbook — for it: Chinese tipplers spent almost 247 million euros ($364 million) on French wines and...
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Posted by Rhyen Coombs | Feb 22, 2008
China’s middle class has discovered French wine, reports China Daily, and developed quite the taste — and pocketbook — for it: Chinese tipplers spent almost 247 million euros ($364 million) on French wines and...
Read MorePosted by Rhyen Coombs | Feb 22, 2008
Not every fashionable wedding demands a lavish banquet and a limousine, reports Shanghai Daily – and for the record number of Chinese couples expected to marry this year, that may be a relief: When Xu Lin and her...
Read MorePosted by Rhyen Coombs | Feb 19, 2008
About 100,000 people in the southern China manufacturing base Foshan went without water for six hours this weekend after an oil slick contaminated its local river, threatening nearby cities as well. Terra Daily reports: Local...
Read MorePosted by Rhyen Coombs | Feb 18, 2008
Ten years after moving to the United States, Chinese women face breast cancer rates 80 percent higher than those of more recent immigrants, prompting concerns that Western eating habits may be driving rates in Beijing and...
Read MorePosted by Rhyen Coombs | Feb 16, 2008
Grandmothers are joining cheerleaders on the stage and on the airwaves, reports Voice of America, and they call themselves “The Hip-Hop Grannies.” Wu Yi retired at the mandatory age of 55. Bored at home, she saw...
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